Category: Features
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Is there a gap in the market for a casino-based MMORPG?
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Read more: Is there a gap in the market for a casino-based MMORPG?The gaming world has expanded into almost every niche fathomable, with the recent rise in virtual reality and augmented reality games being an example of this. But, there is a realm in which gaming could combine with another globally popular past time to expand its reach even further. Casinos have long been a staple of…
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The Shape of Water
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Read more: The Shape of WaterThe Shape of Water has been nominated for an incredible 13 Oscars. That’s about 12 too many. Kevin tried to warn me about this film, but at the urging of a friend, I saw it anyway. Guillermo Del Toro made Pan’s Labyrinth, which was a beautiful film, and one of my favorites. The cinematography in…
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure
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Read more: Maze Runner: The Death CureRunning in circles. With The Hunger Games series concluding more than two years ago and the Divergent series crashing and burning with its third film, the so-called Young Adult genre has all but died in the film world. That is not to say studios aren’t still trying to find the next Hunger Games, but they…
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Phantom Thread
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Read more: Phantom ThreadWith Phantom Thread we have a movie set in England in the boring 50’s. This is a film about a dressmaker, a very good dressmaker. Reynolds Woodcock was more than just a designer of women’s dresses. He was a genius, a high-level artist, and one who was so good that all sorts of born-rich fools,…
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Den of Thieves
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Read more: Den of ThievesI did not see that coming. Raise your hand if you get super excited when you first hear about a new Gerard Butler movie. Anyone? No? Okay, raise your hand if you loved 300 and forgave Butler for doing bad rom-coms like The Ugly Truth and The Bounty Hunter. Still nothing, huh? How about this…
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Darkest Hour
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Read more: Darkest HourIn Darkest Hour, Winston Churchill characterizes the antithesis of university students the world over, and succeeds in making a series of intelligent decisions whilst extremely drunk. The film captures the crushing pressure borne by Churchill at a time when Britain seemed small and alone in the face of a military supremacy never-before encountered in history.…
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NFL Championship Weekend: What Can Cheeto Do Next Edition
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Read more: NFL Championship Weekend: What Can Cheeto Do Next EditionWho is Stormy Daniels? Note that this is a genuine question, the answer to which will affect my judgment to some degree. So I don’t mean it in a pseudo-philosophical way, like some idiotic Nancy Grace talking head. Nor am I taking the tact of a therapist, like when they say no, really, who is…
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Molly’s Game
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Read more: Molly’s GameMolly Blum was not the wife of the fictional Leopold Blum in the unreadable book Ulysses, but a real-life Olympic skier. She was also a daddy-baiting, Freud-hating, and impossibly gorgeous savant with a strange, situational ethics moral compass. Instead of pursuing a career in law or another high-paying discipline, she decided to stick it to…
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NFL Wildcard Weekend: Lifebuoy For The Commander In Chief Edition
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Read more: NFL Wildcard Weekend: Lifebuoy For The Commander In Chief EditionWell ladies and gentlemen, here we are. Saturday and Sunday bring us the divisional rounds, the first playoff games where everyone starts watching. Typically, anyway. The general idea is that these games feature the teams most likely to play in February, so the casuals come out of the woodwork. Unfortunately, so too do the bandwagon…
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The Commuter
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Read more: The CommuterLike Murder on the Orient Express, but not. Happy 2018 everybody. As we welcome in 2018, I’m hoping to spend a lot of executive time in my shithole. If you were wishing for 2018 to be a fresh start, keep on wishing everybody. On behalf of all non-deplorable Americans, I apologize to Haiti, El Salvador,…