Category: Features
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 33
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 33You’re a mean one, Mr. GrinchYou really are a heelYou’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an eel, Mr. GrinchYou’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel! You’re a monster, Mr. GrinchYour heart’s an empty holeYour brain is full of spiders, you’ve got garlic in your soul, Mr. GrinchI wouldn’t touch…
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Babylon (2022)
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Read more: Babylon (2022)It’s a rare occurrence when a movie or series shows something that stops every random thought in my head, every synapse focusing like a laser on the screen. I become Neo in The Matrix when Morpheus leaps to a distant building. “Whoa” is the only correct response. It happened the first time I saw the…
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The Teacher Typos: Part 3
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Read more: The Teacher Typos: Part 3The wrongly accused: Lucas in The Hunt aka Jagten (2012) Back in the 90s I covered a newspaper story in which a run of the mill, middle-aged sex offender was having a bit of a tough time. He’d been sent to clink for touching up some residents at a women’s shelter. In his favor, the…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 32
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 32It is no secret that I love my Christmas Movies. I have reviewed over 100 of them in the past decade. A Christmas Story is the #1 Christmas movie ever made and The Old Man is the most memorable Christmas Character to ever hit the big screen. With a bar this high, it is difficult…
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Thirteen Lives
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Read more: Thirteen LivesIt’s award consideration season, so here’s my consideration. Synopsis A cave rescue mission. Writing On June 23, 2018, twelve boys and their coach were trapped in a flooded cave system in northern Thailand. Given the recency of the event, extensive coverage at the time, and the known outcome, the movie practically writes itself. The only…
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The Teacher Typos: Part 2
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Read more: The Teacher Typos: Part 2The inspirational: LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds (1995), Mark Thackeray in To Sir, with Love (1967) and John Keating in Dead Poets Society (1989) It’s time to say hi to our latest graduate from the Kelly McGillis Top Gun School of Absurd Roles. Meet the willowy, effortlessly elegant Michelle Pfeiffer (along with her dazzling smile…
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Holiday Inn (1942)
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Read more: Holiday Inn (1942)Holiday Inn is a Christmas classic that is just about white bread as a movie can possibly be. The people, the sets, the landscape, the language and politics are all blanched, bleached and hoary white. The only thing darker than the unfettered and ubiquitous snow was the token “Mammie” (Louise Beavers) and her two little…
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What Are The Popular Cryptocurrencies?
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Read more: What Are The Popular Cryptocurrencies?What are the popular cryptocurrencies? The market is flooded with more than 18,000 Cryptocurrencies Profit Edge, but most people consider the word bitcoin synonymous with the word cryptocurrencies in a sense of popularity. Another reason is that it is the first cryptocurrency that came to the market in 2009, and it is still the most…
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The Teacher Typos: Part One
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Read more: The Teacher Typos: Part OneWe’ve all had teachers. And I don’t mean in the sexual sense. Good, bad, boring, angry and spaced out, teachers tend to stick in the mind. I remember one guy in junior school who routinely flew off the handle, leaving me scared to attend class. He once reduced me to tears by shouting in my…
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Crimes Of The Future
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Read more: Crimes Of The FutureIt’s award consideration season, so here’s my consideration. Writing There are interesting concepts, but they never fall into a cohesive narrative. In this future, most humans have evolved to no longer feel pain or become infected by disease and many are growing new organs with undetermined functions, only to have them removed to comply with…