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WARNER BROS. MOTHER’S DAY GIVEAWAY
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THE MOVIE GENDER SWITCH PROJECT
Pick a movie and switch the roles.
YAM’S TOP35 CANCIONES OF THE 90’S
The Spanish-speakers of the YAM Magazine staff voted their favorite Canciones of the 90s.
SE HABLA ESPAÑOL
The YAM Magazine Spanish-speaking team is thrilled to open the Spanish version of this online magazine.
2013 – LGBT BLOGATHON
This year’s YAM Magazine Pride Month celebration continues!
LATEST NEWS
music videos/Caveman – In the City
New York band Caveman has released their latest single titled In the City, directed by Philip Di Fiore, following a couple played by Julia Stiles and Fran Kranz as things take an eerily disturbing turn as someone begins torturing Stiles physically and emotionally.
[read more]music videos/Shiina Ringo – Irohanihoheto
Shiina Ringo’s latest single titled Irohanihoheto (いろはにほへと) referring to a pretty old Japanese poem that dates back a thousand years about the concepts of Buddhism, directed by Yuichi Kodama (児玉裕一).
[read more]trailers/Monsters University Trailer 3
Here’s the latest trailer of Monsters University, where the idea is to highlight the soundtrack.
[read more]music videos/S.H.E – Dear Tree Hollow
Rainbows and puppies Taiwanese trio S.H.E celebrate some more with the Blossomy DVD and the release of the final music video of their album titled Dear Tree Holllow (親愛的樹洞, Qin Ai de Shu Dong) at the hand of COSMOS.
[read more]trailers/As Cool As I Am Trailer
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
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LATEST REVIEWS
Films/The Squid and the Whale
Noah Baumbach’s film is a great look at the breakdown of a family going through divorce that is simultaneously hilarious and depressing.
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Films/Paradise: Love
The first in Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy, Paradise: Love explores just how people sometimes try to find passion in all the wrong ways.
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Films/Trance (2013)
Danny Boyle’s Trance is a trippy film to watch thanks to its Inception-like gimmick and multiple twists throughout its running time.
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Films/So Young (Chinese Film)
College days, friendships, and falling in and out of love as years pass by, friendships fade, reunions happen, connections are rekindled; all in the name of nostalgia.
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Films/90 Minutes (Norwegian Film)
Eva Sorhaug’s second feature film, four years after Cold Lunch, starts in a soft manner but ends intensely, aiming to make a psychological study of three men through three different unrelated stories.
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Films/Great Gatsby, The (2013)
For all its faults, Baz Luhrmann delivers an entertaining, unsubtle, aesthetically pleasing movie that will be sure to annoy plenty.
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Films/Kiss of the Damned
Xan Cassavetes’ feature debut is a classy little throwback to the seventies that doesn’t exactly rise from a dead story.
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Films/Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness is not as entirely original as its predecessor was, but it doesn’t mean it’s any less entertaining.
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Films/Upstream Color
Shane Carruth delivers a sophomore feature that’s an emotional powerhouse with as much metaphysical prowess as any Malick or Tarkovsky film.
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Music/Lee Hyori – Monochrome
The Queen of Kpop is back after a chunky 2010 comeback, but Monochrome brings her back in better shape than ever, making the wait for the album all the more satisfying.
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Music/Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
The return of the gods of electrofunk, and man is it ever a glorious welcome.
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Music/Bibi Zhou – Unlock
The best element in Unlock is and always will be Bibi’s voice, reaching on-pitch highs and soft delicate whispery lows that will make your soul quiver.
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TV/Wonderfalls
An over-educated and unemployable 24-year-old Brown University graduate has an emotional breakdown when inanimate objects in the shape of animals begin talking to her.
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TV/Battlestar Galactica – Season 1-3
Machines, robots turned human, politics, religion and the metaphysics all blend in the revamp of this 1978 show for SyFy.
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TV/Sherlock – Season 1
The fun of watching Sherlock relies mostly on the interactions between Watson and Holmes, both greatly performed by Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Books/Orphan Master’s Son, The
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction is a good but not exemplary drama of shifting views and identities in North Korea.
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Books/Monster Calls, A
Readers of all ages can appreciate this heartrending story of loss and monsters.
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Books/Little Star (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
It begins with a baby found in a forest. It ends with a scene of carnage set to the sounds of ABBA.
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