Month: November 2020
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Mother (Social Nightmare)
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Read more: Mother (Social Nightmare)I’m being cyberbullied…by my mother. I don’t know whether to OMG or LMFAO.
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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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Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father
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Read more: Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father2008 Denver International Film Festival There’s a myth afoot, origins unknown, that life is worth living. It’s a powerful elixir, needless to say, and continues to hold great power despite almost hourly confirmation of having long ago been debunked. Evidence is plentiful, though one could just as easily submit the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter…
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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…
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Ten Awesome College Comedies
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Read more: Ten Awesome College ComediesFrom wild parties, to pledging fraternities, and other antics, college comedies explore the funny things about college – from scholastic competitions, to new romantic relationships, to coming-of-age stories. Here are 10 great movies to check out! Accepted In 2006, Justin Long was a part of the growing norm of high-concept comedies, especially in the college…
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Come Play
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Read more: Come PlayThere’s an app for everything. Parenting during the pandemic has been quite a challenge. All of the things that are important for children – attending school, being around other kids their age, spreading their time across multiple activities, not being around parents 24/7 – have been completely disrupted. Among those things is limiting screen-time, an…