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A review of Frederick Backman’s “Anxious People”
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“This is a story about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots,” Swedish author Fredrik Backman divulges to his readers on the opening page of his new novel Anxious People. This is a story about a bank robbery, a hostage drama, marital distress, heart wrenching family division and of course, idiots. The majority of…
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Three Halloween movies to keep Spooky Season alive
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It’s that spooky time of year again: Halloween time. Unfortunately, I don’t think this Halloween was particularly scary considering that in 2020 every day feels more horrifying than the last, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t enjoy some scary movies! Here are three horror films that might help you forget the horror movie right…
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Everything SNL’s Bonjour Hi! got wrong
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Saturday Night Live’s recent sketch Bonjour Hi! has the Québécois furious. The sketch portrays cast members Bowen Yang and Kate McKinnon as French-Canadian news anchors and well, to say the least, it’s terrible. These exhausted Canadian stereotypes are so rarely funny, I was honestly surprised to see any television show taking a crack at them.…
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Borat’s sequel may well be the comedy of the year
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Who needs religion when you have Sasha Baron Cohen? Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan—also known as Borat 2—was released Oct. 23 over Amazon Prime Video. To say the least—although I am extremely biased—Borat 2 is genius. The film is riddled with Cohen’s…
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Is “This is Us” emotionally manipulating its audience?
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With the fifth season of This Is Us set to premiere next Tuesday, fans are eagerly awaiting the answers to many questions. Will Randall and Kevin reconcile after their huge fight? Will a romantic relationship form between Madison and Kevin? And what is going on in those scenes from the future? This Emmy-nominated NBC drama…
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The controversy and criticism around Bill Burr’s SNL monologue
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Bill Burr recently went on Saturday Night Live and delivered an opening monologue that has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. Some have been praising Burr’s jokes as a reality check and a funny departure during an otherwise unfunny time. Others have blasted the piece, calling it offensive and unassuming. After analyzing the comedy…
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Which streaming service produces the best original content?
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As it becomes extremely common for streaming services to produce their own original content, it raises the question: whose are the best? To clarify, I only intend on talking about original films and series produced solely for the streaming service in question. I don’t care that New Girl is on Netflix. Disney+ is an outlier…
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Adam Sandler’s “Hubie Halloween”: Revenge for his Oscar snub
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A month before last year’s Oscar nominations were released, Adam Sandler joked on The Howard Stern Show that if the Academy snubbed him for his role in The Safdie Brothers’ film Uncut Gems he would make a movie “that is so bad on purpose.” Well, that’s exactly what happened. Although Sandler was well recognized at…
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Eddie Van Halen: The true godfather of rock and roll
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Our society has been faced with the sudden passing of many influential figures over the past few months: Chadwick Boseman, Neil Peart, Kelly Preston, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, St. Louis Cardinal legends Lou Brock and Bob Gibson but to me, the most soul-crushing loss has been that of guitar-genius Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen passed on…
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Paris Hilton’s new documentary brings her private life to the public eye
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My perception of Paris Hilton was shaped by her early 2000s pop-culture status of being the ultra-rich, “dumb blonde” socialite who once appeared in terrible MTV and Fox reality shows and gained her fame from riding on the coattails of her wealthy family. At some point in my pre-teen life, I’m sure I owned one…
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