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“Us” Is A Chilling Indictment of Classism

This film is a great example of smart, nuanced horror in every department from the writing to the shots to the pacing. This movie will frighten you and has some good scares, but they never feel cheap or forced. It’s held together by dark, but tight and brilliant writing as opposed to simple jump scares and gags.

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Bottoms-Movie Review

This is a 2020s Roger Waters movie. There’s just a lot going on here and for the most part, I thought it was great.

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Helldivers II: First Impressions

A little late, as always, but believe me when I say I’ve been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 recently. And this is more than just hype. This game is good. Really good. It’s the online co-op game we’ve needed for a long time.

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Barbie Got Me Messed Up

Barbie was one of the best movies I have seen recently, at any level. It’s such a brilliantly shot, acted and designed movie that sometimes you forget the foundation it stands on is this perfectly written, perfectly structured script. It artfully moves you from Act to Act smoothly, and there’s never really a sense of a loss of pace. There could be an argument made that the occasional singing and dancing scenes could take you out of the movie, but because this movie is Barbie, I would argue it absolutely doesn’t.

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Paris Texas Is The Future of Music

Rap and rock have traditionally been opposed. Both genres and their conventions have lent themselves to elements of rawness, but together, there is a bitter harmony that I believe will be the defining sound of the 2020s before the decade is up. Enter Paris Texas, an alternative hip hop group comprised of rapper-producers Loiue Pastel and Felix.

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Music Reviews: keep it going!!!-xaviersobased

I know nothing about this artist. He also doesn’t seem like a real person. The beats and bars are repetitive, clawing melodies out of jarring rythyms that don’t work the first 5 times you hear them. Then, somehow, after xaviersobased says it for the 6th time, it sort of works

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The Finals: First Impressions

The Finals! A hot new freemium/Battle Pass game from Embark Studios, makers of…..(looks it up)….ARC Raiders and wim (literally what it’s called). Never heard of them. However, I’ve heard of The Finals. I’ve been watching it on Twitch since it was in pre-release.

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Lego Fortnite: First Impressions After 10 Hours

If Lego Fortnite was a finished game being sold in stores, you’d think it’s fun, but a little underwhelming. But as a free live-service game in it’s first update cycle, it shows a tremendous amount of potential.

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Gate of Hell Foresaw The Incel

Today we’re talking about Gate of Hell, a 1953 jidaegeki (period drama) film. Set in 12th Century Japan, the movie focuses on a samurai Endō Morito, and his obsession with a lady-in-waiting Kesa. It’s not a classic love story. It’s actually a painful and scary love story, mainly because it’s so realistic.

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The New York Times “Book of Movies” Is A Cinephile’s Dream

What makes this book great, is I would recommend this book to almost everyone. If you don’t like movies, this will keep you on a path of good ones. If you love movies, there will be absolutely be some cool ones you haven’t seen in here. If you’re just a normal person who enjoys a flick every once in a while, this is a great reference book.

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Cruising: A Review Pt. 1

A cruise ship is a very strange place. There’s unlimited food, unlimited drinks and pretty much everything to do. The ship I was on had a waterslide, hot tubs, swimming pools, a basketball court, like 15 bars…I mean it was basically a floating city block.

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