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Rebecca: On the Constraints of Devotion, the Past, and Class
“To love is to let go.” “You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” These phrases allude to the fact that part of making progress is freeing oneself from the burdens of the past. Life…
Read More »The Forty-Year-Old Version of Balancing Expression and Compromise
“And if I’m not creatin art, am I committin a crime?” The tale of the struggling artist who reaches the precipice of success only to face the powers-that-be pressuring them into compromising their vision, putting the artist at…
Read More »The Devil All The Time Explores the Corrupting Side of Religion
Religion has long stood at the center of American life and culture, for better or worse depending on who you ask. For many individuals, religion has saved their lives and given them purpose. Once religion becomes intertwined with…
Read More »Tenet Reveals the Flaws in Christopher Nolan’s Filmmaking Style
Tenet already had many eyes upon its release, being the latest entry from legendary director Christopher Nolan and a big summer blockbuster. But as we are all aware, 2020 has been the year of curveballs and one was…
Read More »I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Surrealist Fever Dream
Our pasts often shape our present, creating either obstacles for us to overcome, or helping to create a clear vision of what we’d like to do or like to avoid. When entering into a relationship with a new…
Read More »The Personal History of David Copperfield Provides a Charming New Twist to an Age Old Tale
Providing new twists on old material can be both risky and a heavy lift. Fans of the material become used to one type of interpretation and can often become hostile to anything new. If creatives are able to…
Read More »Bill & Ted Face the Music Transports Gen X Back to Memorable Laughs
Nostalgia has powered the American box office for the better part of a decade with millennials and Gen Xers clamoring for remakes and reboots that call back to memories of their childhoods. For some moviegoers (including me, full…
Read More »Tesla and the Limitations of Ambition
The Bible says that no man can serve two masters and no one may know that better than creatives in the capitalist age. Breaking new ground can cost and acquiring the necessary capital to turn dreams into reality…
Read More »Sputnik Uses the Sci-Fi Classics Before It to Examine Human Emotion
Since Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking, legendary sci-film Alien was released in 1979, tales of alien life forms seeking unsuspecting human space explorers to use as living hosts have been ubiquitous in the genre to the point of becoming rote…
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 Shows the Past is Prologue
Fragmented youthful leftists idealistically trying to create a world that may never be, dirty tactics from administration officials who we would later found out are more corrupt than the leftists they seek to destroy, a partisan judiciary, and…
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