Latest articles by Jillian Rayfield
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How America ruins British TV shows
feature Compared to Coupling and Free Agents, the otherwise-middling House of Cards seems like a smashing success
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson's 8 best Hollywood fact-checks
feature The famed astrophysicist has used his considerable expertise to analyze the plausibility of Gravity, The Amazing Spider-Man, and more
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9 memorable movies based on TV shows
feature What can the producers of Veronica Mars learn from these smashing successes and abysmal failures?
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The 'based on a true story' fake-out: How 3 Oscar contenders misled audiences
The Explainer What did Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, and Argo embellish for the sake of a more dramatic story? Let's fact-check award season's biggest movies
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10 brutal reviews from the January movie dump
feature Enjoy the best jabs at the worst movies
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7 movies that are cleverly disguised Shakespeare adaptations
feature The Bard himself might not recognize his work in these very loose adaptations of his plays
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The Oscar non-contenders: 6 Best Picture hopefuls that are already hopeless
feature With Gravity and 12 Years a Slave emerging as front-runners, here are six movies that have already seen their Oscar dreams go up in smoke
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10 brutal reviews from the January movie dump
feature Enjoy the best jabs at the worst movies released at the beginning of 2014
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4 pivotal gay rights court cases you should know about
feature The U.S. judicial system has become the main battlefield in the fight for equal rights
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After DOMA, Oklahoma drags its feet on gay marriage
feature It's been a watershed year for gay rights. But in the Sooner State...
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7 over-the-top defenses of Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson
feature Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal to the rescue!
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6 comedies to watch while Parks & Recreation is off the air
feature Mourning the loss of NBC's best sitcom? We can help you fill the Ron Swanson-sized hole in your heart.
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5 reasons Julian Assange hates The Fifth Estate
feature The WikiLeaks founder has turned on the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring biopic
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The 9 best ways to time travel, ranked
feature From Doctor Who to Star Trek, an indisputable hierarchy of Hollywood's most compelling ways to go into the past or future
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Based on a true story? Fact-checking 6 Oscar contenders
feature How Captain Phillips, Saving Mr. Banks, and 12 Years a Slave stack up against reality
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Why Texas just became 2014's biggest sideshow
feature Welcome to the strange world of Rep. Steve Stockman
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Raging Bull and recess appointments: The Supreme Court's controversial January
feature Hold onto your hats, SCOTUS
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Based on a true story? Fact-checking 5 Oscar contenders
feature How American Hustle, Inside Llewyn Davis, and The Wolf of Wall Street stack up against reality
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