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A Movie Nerd's Movie

Last week in “Battle: Los Angeles” aliens came to blow us up. This week in “Paul” the alien in question is much more content just kicking back, having a few beers and cracking a bunch of jokes. Now that’s a close encounter I can get behind.

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'Limitless' Thrill

During the height of the steroids-in-baseball scandal a friend defending the muscle-bound sluggers asked, “You mean to tell me that if someone came up to you and offered you a pill that would make you dramatically better at your job and ratchet up your pay grade that you wouldn’t take it?”

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'Free Range'

The first and 11th tracks on “Free Range” bookend with the sounds of a locomotive engine — a funny, yet appropriate, choice for a group whose music doesn’t track to a rail-line path and sonically inspires visions of open air and unrestrained options.

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Two Guitar Men …

Favorite moment of the concert Saturday? When Smith’s father, Gus, a guitar guru in his own right, and his kindergarten-age daughter, Annsley, joined him on stage.