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My father was a huge Civil War history enthusiast. And by using the term “Civil War”, of course I mean the American Civil War. I mean, like who cares about the inner conflicts that like occurred in other nations anyway, right? Okay fine, when Ken Burns gets around to making documentaries on all those other conflicts, maybe I’ll check them …
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Ah, movie franchises! The assured theatrical comfort food for the masses. And audiences eat them up accordingly. A franchise movie series brings along a comfy and familiar concept. If the formula for the follow-up sticks relatively close to the series predecessors, the worst the audience would say is “Well, that wasn’t too bad, right?” Oddly enough, …
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So we meet again for the first time, for the last time. Well, not really. I have a few more of these to go, but who would have believed that we could get this far? I know that the Vegas bookmakers had odds that certainly weren’t in my favor. But seeing as how hell froze over this past week, …
Well, here we are yet again to spelunk into the cavern that is James Bond 007. We’ve covered all the stalactites and stalagmites that are before us and now I’m already bored with the cave exploration analogies. Moving on, I shall now go over a Bond movie that I’m sure most of you would have placed much, …
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