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Loving the Bomb: Technology & Conquest in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
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Read more: Loving the Bomb: Technology & Conquest in the Films of Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was undeniably one of the most brilliant and innovative motion picture directors of all time. His meticulously crafted works have influenced innumerable filmmakers all over the world, from Steven Spielberg to Gaspar Noe. Obviously, entire books have been written about Kubrick’s oeuvre, so let us focus here on the peak of his…
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The Christmas Chronicles 2
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Read more: The Christmas Chronicles 2I got the notification yesterday that The Christmas Chronicles 2 was available for immediate streaming at Netflix. I didn’t know whether or not to rejoice or cringe. I don’t want to poison the well, but let’s face it. Christmas sequels have not historically been successful. Most, like Bad Santa 2 and the unwatchable A Christmas…
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Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood: One Possible Interpretation
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Read more: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood: One Possible InterpretationIn all that has already been written and said about Quentin Tarantino’s latest (and supposedly penultimate) movie, one thing that comes up again and again is the surprisingly disrespectful way in which the character of Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) is portrayed. His one really crucial scene sees him being arrogant toward stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad…
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A Midnight Clear
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Read more: A Midnight ClearI love Christmas Movies and there are few that actually make me cry. There are tears of joy, tears of grief, and tears from the sheer excellence of an event that you witness. A Midnight Clear was all of these and more. I want to give a special thanks to one of our biggest fans…
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Top Resources To Help You On Your Intermediate English Journey
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Read more: Top Resources To Help You On Your Intermediate English JourneyYour English Learning Journey You begin your English-learning journey with the preparation: looking up resources to help you, reading up and downloading apps meant for English learners, and preparing a vocabulary list of the simplest, most frequently-used English words. As improvements are made, you move on to more specific vocabulary suitable for use on different…
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The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
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Read more: The Dead Don’t Die (2019)“Humor is subjective” is a phrase I forced myself to remember several times throughout legendary independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s latest, The Dead Don’t Die, as several other people in the audience with me reacted audibly and approvingly to jokes I found relentlessly unfunny and lame. Here are some of the bits that elicited laughter… Farmer…
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Un Chien Andalou
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Read more: Un Chien AndalouThis 1929 collaboration between Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali is one of the strangest and most enigmatic films ever produced, containing all the layers of dream logic and elusive profundity of a David Lynch movie in under twenty minutes. The two notorious surrealists apparently couldn’t have been happier that their work confounded so many viewers…
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Hunger (2008)
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Read more: Hunger (2008)I saw this in April of 2009 and the rest of the year failed to produce a more perfect film. Director Steve McQueen (not the one I was thinking of, as it turned out) crafts a completely compelling take on the famed hunger strike endured by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and other political prisoners associated…
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Understanding Trumpers: How Can 70 Million People Be Wrong?
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Read more: Understanding Trumpers: How Can 70 Million People Be Wrong?The election is over. Regardless of the hate-spewed lies of Trump…Lies that 69.9 Million of the Trumpers actually believe, Joe Biden will be the next President of The United States. Oh, and what a mess he will inherit, but that will be discussed later. Covid-19 is raging, and there is nothing that the present administration…
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Come Away -A Tale Of Two Tales
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Read more: Come Away -A Tale Of Two TalesTitles are one of the most important aspects of a film. In one, two, or a handful of words, a title has to tell us what the movie is about, be intriguing enough to convince us to spend money to watch the film, be memorable, and not be so long as to have diarrhea of…