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Movie Review: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” – Fire Is Catching
Movie franchises which began with a book series and avid fans have become the latest film trend. Some of the film adaptations are successful while others are not. It’s easy to see that “The Hunger…
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Movie Review: “Before I Go To Sleep” – A Poorly Executed Tragedy
I recently got the chance to watch Rowan Joffe’s movie, “Before I Go To Sleep”, a movie that brings back the film noir genre that was popular in the 1940’s and combines it with the…
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Movie Review: “Whiplash” – Drum Roll Please!
“I want to be one of the greats.” After finishing its festival rounds, Damien’s Chazelle’s “Whiplash” has finally opened to the masses and wowed audiences with its triumphant story of an aspiring jazz drummer and…
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TV Review: “Scorpion” – Hacking is Magic
I hope you like the number 197 and what Hollywood believes hacking to be, because the show “Scorpion” is very much about those two things. As a show, “Scorpion” is almost like what you’d get…
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TV Review: “The Comeback” – She’s Back!
Television was a different medium in the year 2005. Original programming was still slowly growing, with HBO arguably leading the pack since the late ‘90s with unique programming. Then along comes a little show called…
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Movie Review: “Nightcrawler” – Stylishly Unsettling
This past week, I had the uncomfortable pleasure of watching “Nightcrawler”, a heavy-handed critique on how the media and audiences embrace grotesque violence, and the willingness to excuse those that provide us with what we…
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TV Review: “Doctor Who” – “Death in Heaven”
“Doctor Who” season finales tend to be some of the most dark and sad episodes of the season. The previous episode of “Doctor Who”, which was unofficially called the first part of the season 8…
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TV Review: “Death Comes to Pemberley” – A Riveting Murder-Mystery
Jane Austen’s most well-known and beloved novel is, without a doubt, “Pride and Prejudice”. It tells the tale of family, love, and heartbreak. The main characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, have both pride and…
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Movie Review: “The One I Love” – Like Doing Acid Off A Mirror
“The One I Love,” out now on Netflix, ends absolutely nowhere close to where it began. What starts at a tale of slowly drifting couple Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elizabeth Moss) becomes a pleasantly…
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Movie Review:”Interstellar”- Unparalleled Reach To the Stars
“Interstellar” finds Christopher Nolan reaching to the heavens to answer some of the basic questions behind science fiction: what’s out beyond the stars, what does the future hold, and where does humanity belong? “Interstellar” features…