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The 4 Best PC Games For Students
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Read more: The 4 Best PC Games For StudentsNowadays, an increasing number of studies are finding evidence that playing video games can have positive effects on different aspects of life, including academic performance. So, if you’re a student looking for ways to improve your grades or simply want to have some fun, here are four great PC games that can help you do…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 19
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 19Movie: The Thing John Carpenter’s 1982 reimagining of The Thing is overflowing with ghastly horrors and delights, including some of the greatest (and nastiest) practical effects work of all time, not least in the famous blood test and defibrillator scenes. However, it is the first brief appearance by the Thing itself, seen in its true…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 18
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 18Movie: A Few Good Men Courtroom drama has been harvested since the very existence of motion pictures. From masterpiece classics like 12 Angry Men and To Kill A Mockingbird to hilarious comedies like My Cousin Vinny, movie viewers have been mesmerized by the drama and histrionics in the courtroom. One of the most unforgettable is…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 17
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 17Movie: Full Metal Jacket Virtually everyone who has any interest in movies at all has seen Full Metal Jacket, or at least the opening and unforgettable diatribe by R. Lee Ermey. It is noteworthy and unbelievable that Ermey was not cast in this role, but was merely hired by Stanley Kubrick as an advisor. Kubrick…
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Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part 2
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Read more: Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part 2The Heaven’s Gate moment: Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Do you ever avoid a flick because the critics pissed on it? You know, stuff like Ishtar and Battlefield Earth. The laughable quality of these efforts is so taken for granted that they’re only supposed to be trundled out if a snigger fest is required. I…
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Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part One
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Read more: Memorable Directors: Brian De Palma: Part OneThere’s only one way to describe Brian De Palma’s five-decade-long career: all over the shop. There have been glorious artistic highs, far too many Hitchcockian homages, the odd mainstream megahit, a sprinkling of high-profile awards, condemnation for tawdry subject matter, a pronounced tendency to work with the same collaborators both in front of and behind…
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Armageddon Time
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Read more: Armageddon Time“Armageddon Time” – What was I saying? The IMDb synopsis of Armageddon Time is “A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.” The movie poster for Armageddon Time features the tagline “The end of an era. The beginning of everything.” Such grandiose statements sound like…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 16
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 16Movie: Unforgiven Here at Ruthless we love our Westerns and especially the shoot-out scenes where the bad guys get their just due. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West did their showdown scenes in the brilliant sunshine, but the final showdown in Unforgiven was on a dark,…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 15
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 15Movie: The Sting It is no secret that Paul Newman was one of the most charismatic and talented actors that ever lived. The Sting was a superior movie to his other iconic buddy movie, Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid, and the reason was unforgettable and quite satisfying scenes like the poker game on the…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 14
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 14Movie: The Usual Suspects The lineup scene in The Usual Suspects may be only the second-best scene in the movie, but is easily the most recognizable of the film. The scene begins with five men trudging into a police station’s lineup room, the men clearly annoyed at this inconvenience. Narrating the scene is Verbal (Kevin…