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Can Taylor Swift’s “Delicate” music video be considered plagiarism?
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2016 saw unorthodox director Spike Jonze return to filmmaking since his Oscar-winning Her back in 2013 with a perfume ad giddily extolling primal free-spirited silliness. A tour de force of spatial direction and committed performance, the video for Kenzo World saw actress/model Margaret Qualley bursting with uncontrollable energy as she contorts her body every which…
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Joke theft on Twitter isn’t a laughing matter
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Twitter is this wonderfully horrible hell-of-a-website where the delineations between being famous and anonymous do not matter at all. Through virtue of posting funny, witty, or just downright bizarre content, any user can build a brand and rise to the highest echelons of “weird twitter” and equate something close to fame. In this odd space…
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The world of gaming can be a very bigoted one
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Games Done Quick is a semiannual charity stream where speedrunners (gamers who compete to finish games as quickly as possible), pool their esoteric talents across several days to collect donations for organizations, namely the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Doctors Without Borders. Running steadily since 2010, the event has raised more than $15 million total…
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Wiseau vs. Franco: Controversy over Golden Globes gaffs
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The Golden Globes took place this past week and among the most memorable moments — such as Oprah’s address about the #MeToo movement and Natalie Portman eviscerating the Globes sexist director nomination practice with a single sentence — there was a small, comparatively insignificant moment which grabbed my attention. James Franco won the Globe for…
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Reviewing without validity: what it means for movie critics
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Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird was a genuine ode to youthful idealism and formation which touched critics and audiences alike with its scrupulous rendering of teenage coming to age, becoming one of the best reviewed films of last year. The spirited indie film is currently standing at an extremely uncommon 99% on the review…
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David Cross’ excuses aren’t a valid apology for racism
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Last month, comedian-actress-poet Charlyne Yi relayed the first time she met fellow comedian, David Cross a decade ago on Twitter and the account painted a disturbing picture. The then 40-year-old Cross began by insulting the clothes that 20-year-old Yi was wearing and, when left speechless by his decorum, Cross continued by saying “what’s a matter?…
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Toxic Fanbases ruin things for everyone else
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We like to imagine that our personal opinions concerning what we love are organic and intrinsic to our privately designed scale of quality. Pure, honest and uninfluenced by external things, we judge by what’s meant to be judged and nothing else. Yet, sometimes, when it becomes abundantly clear you are not the only one who feels so strongly about something…
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The future world of Blade Runner 2049 is a disappointing one
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Speaking on what attracted her to write science fiction in the first place, multiple Hugo award winner Octavia Butler relayed it was mainly because she “was able to do anything” and the fact that “there were no walls to hem [her] in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” The…
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Picking your problematic celebrity favourites
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Stars have been categorized as “bad people” since we as a population could understand and eventually worship the concept of fame. Celebrities nowadays seem to be ousted every other week for some form of awful behaviour or discretion which – up to now – they’ve kept hidden from the public and from you, the fan. And as their fan, what exactly do you do…
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South Park dumps Trump talk ahead of upcoming season
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On June 30, South Park co-creator Trey Parker made an announcement while speaking to the Los Angeles Times that surprised and unsettled me more so than any of the material featured in their Emmy-award winning cartoon. I’ve been a longtime fan of how South Park viciously skewered seemingly everything, from organized religion to celebrities in…
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