Email Author Brian Miller
Awards
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2008 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published December 19, 2007
"The SW Treatment"
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2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published November 7, 2007
"Fantasy Island"
2010 Stories by Brian Miller
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Getting America Back on Track in Unstoppable
published November 10, 2010
Though based on actual 2001 events in Ohio that caused an unmanned freight train, laden with toxic waste, to go haywire, Unstoppable... More >>
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A Lesbian DADT Melodrama, Marine Story's Got Issues
published November 3, 2010
More topical—thanks to the recent federal court ruling against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—than it is dramatic, A... More >>
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Dance Will Set You Free, Etc., in Mao's Last Dancer
published August 18, 2010
Good films about ballet can be numbered on one hand. And about Chinese dissidents? I've still got fingers enough to type this review. Based on... More >>
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The Wildest Dream Asks: Who Really Climbed Mount Everest First?
published August 4, 2010
Everest looks suitably majestic in this IMAX documentary, though five different expeditions on the peak are awkwardly cobbled into one dubious... More >>
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Awesome French MacGyvers Triumph Over Technology in Micmacs. Sorry, MacGruber.
published May 25, 2010
An exploded grandfather clock of a movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's intricately antic Micmacs hurls gears, gizmos, and other trash-heap... More >>
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Barking Water's Hardly Cheerful Native America
published May 11, 2010
Sprung out the hospital by his ex-girlfriend, Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman) is clearly dying. That he is an Indian dying in Indian country... More >>
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Multiple Sarcasms: Whiney White-Guy Midlife Crisis
published May 4, 2010
Anyone who tells you he's got a great career, perfect marriage, and superior parenting skills does not. And if he then declares that... More >>
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The Bounty Hunter of Mismatched Couple Clichés
published March 16, 2010
You've followed their packaged romance in the supermarket checkout line—now see the movie. Jennifer Aniston's hair plays a New York... More >>
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District 13: Ultimatum Seeks the International Xbox Demo
published February 2, 2010
Less a sequel than a remake of the exhilarating 2006 action flick that introduced parkour, the French run-and-jump urban obstacle sport,... More >>
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Jackie Chan's Shinjuku Incident
published February 2, 2010
Fresh after his painful buffoonery in The Spy Next Door, Jackie Chan tacks the opposite direction in this tough yet conventional... More >>
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North Face's Harsh Conditions Don't Lie
published January 26, 2010
No, not the parkas. The fearsome north face of the Eiger mountain became the object of national socialist obsession during the '30s. An Olympic... More >>
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Leap Year, Perfect for that Mother-Daughter Matinee
published January 5, 2010
According to supposed Irish custom, women may propose to their reluctant fiancés on February 29. The woman in Leap Year is Anna... More >>
