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“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people …
Our coverage of the 8-part Amazon Prime series The Romanoffs from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner continues with Lindsay Stamhuis's analysis of the sixth episode, "Panorama" If there's one thing that can be said about Matt Weiner's rather sprawling 8-part series, it's this: it certainly doesn't shy away from the realities of the haves vs. the have-nots. We've encountered Romanov/Romanoff …
In this edition of Pod People I will dive into Australia's premier Twin Peaks podcast, The Return: A Season Three Podcast. This show emanates from Melbourne, hosted by Andy Hazel and Hayley Inch and provides a lifeline for locals, allowing us to hear our own antipodean accents explore and analysis this material in intelligent and …
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When you’re all grown up with a job, bills, and responsibilities, it’s apparently hip to look back at movies like The Crow and talk about how dated they are. “Gah, I can’t believe how much I liked that movie. What was wrong with me?” I’m not that guy. I’m the other guy in the room …
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Graham Reznick has spent almost two decades perfecting a balance between music and the moving image. In addition to work with films such as the infamous VHS, he found time to expand his career to the music industry. 2018 saw the release of not one, but two well-received records from the filmmaker. Now, he's …
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Shudder is the best monthly investment on the internet right now, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been a subscriber since they were in their infancy and even through crass Reddit threads panning the then-new network, I stayed on the wagon. Why? No reason other than a gut feeling. I could tell they were ambitious …
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Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites---whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!---in bite-sized articles perfect …
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Author's Note: This movie has been out for 59 years, so I should not have to post a spoiler alert, but if you have yet to see it (you can find it on Amazon), then spoilers to follow. I am not what you would call a lover of the horror genre. Let me change that …
Sports films are never really about the sport in focus, right? More often than not, the sport is a type of MacGuffin around which the plot is built (like with golf in the Mark Frost-scripted and produced movie The Greatest Game Ever Played) and is used to get us from point A to point B. …
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Episode 9 “Fire and Reign” (written by Asha Michelle Wilson and directed by Jennifer Arnold) was a solid penultimate episode tying together some loose ends in spite of a brief detour to 1918 Siberia and setting up the pieces for next week’s Season 8 finale, or for Season 9 depending on who you ask. This …
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