Steve Jobs
It is quite astounding how transiently obsessed the culture is with a corporate figure. There is more sensationalism around Steve Jobs than assuredly any corporate titan in history. And that must never be forgotten – he was a corporate man. Perhaps that is what makes him so mythological. That a creative being was
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The Walking Dead
Survival horror as a film genre is redundant. For all horror films manifest themselves by pressing a bloody weapon or fang onto the pressure point of the anxiety of surviving life. It is humorous in a way to step back and think that man, as a beast of prey, has no higher animal to
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American Sniper
With American Sniper, we delve into what can only be described as the culture of the silent majority. The fly-over land of America, who sends their sons and daughters into the fray to attack and sacrifice their lives so that the mass culture can create images of resentment and scorn against their country. It
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50/50
The idea is very simple and interesting in 50/50. Imagine a mid 20’s young man, with his boyishness still unblemished from having to navigate through the real-world, be challenged and slighted with the real chance that he will die abruptly because of an unforeseen malignant tumor in his spine. It is, somewhat, another of
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Foxcatcher
Foxcatcher easily has the greatest dramatic ensemble for the year 2014. What makes the trio of masculinity so enduring is that they are paragons of speaking silently yet carrying a big stick entails. There are no histrionics which attempt to pull at raw heart-strings. We see the men each intricately become more and more
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Lincoln
With Lincoln, we are subjected to a medley and almost near uncoordinated barrage of the emotional, wishful charms that are supposed to enchant the American mind, to restore and reinvigorate its memory of the President who ended the slave practice in the United States. The inchoate mixture simply does not know what to be.
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