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Shira Piven on Mental Illness in ‘Welcome to Me’

Kristen Wiig continues to flex her dramatic chops in her latest starring vehicle Welcome to Me, in which she plays Alice, a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and becomes a multi-millionaire overnight. With the means and opportunity to finally break from her carefully regimented lifestyle, consisting of medication, therapy and endless …

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28 Days of Disney Animation: ‘Toy Story,’ Technology, and The Power of Nostalgia

The opening and closing images in the Toy Story trilogy are one and the same: a picture-perfect blue sky with a couple of carefully placed, nonthreatening fluffy clouds in the middle. While both are computer-generated facsimiles, the former is a facsimile of a facsimile: the comforting wallpaper in the bedroom of a little boy named …

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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 62: ‘Mars Needs Moms’

Today is a very special day at Mousterpiece Cinema HQ, because it’s finally happened. After months of searching, after hours of discussion, we have found a film that Mike doesn’t love. In fact, this is a film that Mike had an easier time nitpicking. Yes, that’s right, folks, Mike can nitpick, too! In this epic …

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