Tom Roller


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Film: Oh so dirty pretty things

A droning, monotonous waltz of the silent--of those who remain unseen in their dance of misery--Dirty Pretty Things tells the story of life's undesirable elements and the people compelled to suffer...


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North Ninth Street: Coming into Bloom

In a world of crumbling curbs and muddied gravel lots, nestled among gray trees yet to show the greening buds of April, lay bright bursts of color where one would only expect the wear and tear of...


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Better Read

No mere skeptic am I: I've reread all four novels AND visited filming locations at Oxford's Christ Church College.


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The Emperor's New Clothes

The artistic rift that divides literature from that of the visual arts is a gaping, uneven, ragged canyon that is rarely spanned and often poorly crossed.


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Wet 'N Wild

Is your idea of a beach weekend making the trek down to Wilmington, spending a few hours at the public access beach and hitting the parties at UNC-Wilmington? Are you tired of a beach trip ending...


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Suffering from Heath-Stroke

You can only criticize bad filmmaking so many times; you can only cite shallow, undeveloped characters, weak plot lines and general theatrical nuisance until one movie review starts to run into the...

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