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ModRetro Chromatic review: an arms dealer’s Game Boy is among the best ever made
If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one? In the 1990s, I was among the kids who thought military aircraft were devastatingly cool. By then, Tom Cruise and Top Gun had long established the F-14 Tomcat and a pair of aviator shades as a fantasy for young men; I personally preferred the Lockheed F-117A, the high-tech angular…
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ just landed on Max — here’s one thing I wish I’d known before watching it
I grew up on “Castle in the Sky,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” and the rest of Studio Ghibli’s impressive library of animated films. So when I heard the studio’s legendary director Hayao Miyazaki was coming out of retirement for one final film, “The Boy and the Heron,” you can bet my butt was in a theater seat on opening night. It…
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