Category: Features
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A Midnight Clear
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Read more: A Midnight ClearI love Christmas Movies and there are few that actually make me cry. There are tears of joy, tears of grief, and tears from the sheer excellence of an event that you witness. A Midnight Clear was all of these and more. I want to give a special thanks to one of our biggest fans…
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Top Resources To Help You On Your Intermediate English Journey
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Read more: Top Resources To Help You On Your Intermediate English JourneyYour English Learning Journey You begin your English-learning journey with the preparation: looking up resources to help you, reading up and downloading apps meant for English learners, and preparing a vocabulary list of the simplest, most frequently-used English words. As improvements are made, you move on to more specific vocabulary suitable for use on different…
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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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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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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…
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Hubie Halloween
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Read more: Hubie HalloweenIf you are familiar with Adam Sandler movies, this is exactly what you have come to expect. Whether that means you will enjoy it, or how much that is even possible for you, may vary. Less familiarity might actually equate to greater enjoyment, as you will be less annoyed and distracted by the references and…
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The Top 10 Reasons To Be An Atheist in 2020
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Read more: The Top 10 Reasons To Be An Atheist in 2020Drum roll please… Barry Goldberg is a writer and philosopher and the author of Common Sense Atheism.