A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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One Day (2011)

August 27, 2011

In 1988, ugly duckling Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and golden boy Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) officially meet on the night of their college graduation. Although Emma brings her long-time crush home to her sad, little student flat for sex, the two decide they're better off as just friends and spend the wee hours of the morning cuddling. The story then plays out in snapshots of their lives together and apart, set on subsequent anniversaries of their meeting. Based on David Nicholls' bestselling novel of the same name, One Day is actually numerous days on the same date — July 15 — over a period of 20 years.

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