Category: Features
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NFL Week 9: Our Democracy’s Last Chance Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 9: Our Democracy’s Last Chance EditionSooooooo. How has everybody been? Yeah, okay, I was a little on edge last week, and it came through on the page. Can you really blame me, though? The body count went from 11 to 13 as I was trying to craft jokes about a guy sending 14 bombs to people because his pretend boyfriend…
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Hunter Killer
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Read more: Hunter KillerNot much below the surface. We are almost into award-consideration season, as movies like A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody start. We are also almost into the holiday movie season, where all of the remaining blockbusters of the year stomp all over those award-chasing films. But, we are not there yet, which is why…
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NFL Week 8: Bomb ‘Em and Shoot ‘Em Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 8: Bomb ‘Em and Shoot ‘Em EditionHere extended before you is the notorious hot hand. See me, feel me, touch me. But for Manning the younger and Odell Beckham Jr. combining for a garbage time touchdown and Saquon Barkley punching in an ultimately meaningless two-point conversion, all the while being scolded from the booth by Joe Tessitore, wed have run the…
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NFL Week 7: They Play Kickball in Saudia Arabia Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 7: They Play Kickball in Saudia Arabia EditionHello again, Ruthless! Hell-O to the surviving members of G.W.A.R.! And a big big BIG HELLO to my new friends amongst the Florida Atlantic University students and alumni who can afford an ISP. Go Owls! Like, literally. Go! Go away and stop emailing me and (oh man I’m sorry bear with me, regulars) stop sliding…
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Bad Times at the El Royale
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Read more: Bad Times at the El RoyaleBad Times at the El Royale 2 hours 11 minutes, R for Tarantino-Style Gun Play (with comparable levels of blood splatter) Fair Value of Bad Times at the El Royale: $4.00. Its a solid choice as a streaming rental, solid without being particularly distinct, entertaining enough. Norman Bates, Travis Bickle, The Manson Family, and Nixons…
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NFL Week 6: 1.4 Billion Chinese Don’t Care Edition
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Read more: NFL Week 6: 1.4 Billion Chinese Don’t Care EditionOne of the crazier things about gambling as a hobby is the duality of emotions that come with the territory, so to speak. Sometimes you catch a break and you’re on top of the world, hugging strangers and tossing black chips at the stickman while the dopamine and adrenaline go flooding into your brain stem.…
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First Man
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Read more: First ManNerds. Have you ever ridden Mission Space at Epcot? I have and I love it. My wife has also and decidedly did not love it. I think her exact words were I have a headache and I might throw up. First Man has the same effect without requiring that pesky centrifuge to simulate increased G-forces.…
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Venom
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Read more: VenomWhere have all the villains gone? According to IGN, Venom is the twenty-second greatest comic book villain of all-time. I have no idea what that really means because I do not read comic books. I would be very hard-pressed to name twenty-three comic book villains at all (unless we are just naming X-Men bad guys),…
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NFL Football Week 5: We’re All Animals, Just Different Cages Edition
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Read more: NFL Football Week 5: We’re All Animals, Just Different Cages EditionRats! Who bears the brunt of the guilt for ruining our would-be payout last weekend? Under normal circumstances, I would either curse the Falcons for giving it away, or hammer the Bengals for stealing it. Fortunately – or, unfortunately I guess – there is enough blame to spread around. Last Sundays fourth quarter in Atlanta…
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A Star is Born (2018)
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Read more: A Star is Born (2018)Loose strings. Immediately after watching A Star is Born, I felt satisfied. For the past two months, I have been sitting through movies that range from tolerable to ghastly. Recently, I was asked if I had seen any good movies lately, and my brain took a nap. Christopher Robin was pretty good, but that was…