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Forget life lessons. We have Bill Murray.

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The gang was not interested in robbing Jessica Simpson because her purses weren’t real leather.

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There’s a class of movie that has at its center the basic idea of “character who has everything on the outside, but has just figured out that s/he has nothing on the inside.” Arguably one of the lessons of these kinds of movies is something like “Money doesn’t buy happiness,” but somehow, some films seem to glamorize both the affluence and the emptiness that may come along with such a lifestyle…

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Comprised mostly of minimal instrumental tracks by music ventures from The Cure to Squarepusher, the feeling of the album is that of subtle sadness, hope, and overarching, nostalgic beauty. The mood set by this part of the soundtrack is so heavy and light at the same time that you could easily spend an entire day listening to it on repeat, looking out the window at the sun shining down.

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Filmmaker Joseph Brett decided to remake the trailer for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off after seeing it in a theater this week. “My aim was to make it look more like an indie coming of age film; perhaps the kind of film Sofia Coppola or Godard might make,” he wrote. Seems like he did a pretty excellent job. Video inside.