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How '10 Cloverfield Lane' earns its title

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By Isaac Handelman For those of you who haven’t seen ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ yet and want to get the optimal viewing experience, I’d suggest not reading anything about the film before you go and see it. Which would mean not reading this piece. You’ve been warned. Dan Trachtenberg’s directorial debut 10 Cloverfield Lane will undoubtedly draw up discontent from fans of 2008’s found-footage monster smash Cloverfield ; fans of that film have been desiring a follow-up for years, and 10 Cloverfield Lane ’s title seems indicative of something akin to a sequel, or at least a successor, to the 2008 hit.  And 10 Cloverfield Lane is not that film — at least not on the surface. For most of its duration, Lane is a tense, claustrophobic psychological thriller, a far-cry from the horror and bombast of the first Cloverfield . Lane centers on Michelle (Mary Elizabeth-Winstead), a young woman who finds herself in the captivity of a strange, possibly malevolent man named Howard (John G...
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Learning to love 'Guild Wars 2' as an MMO newcomer

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