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Pop Culture Maniacs
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy's perspective. We're along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking
Pop Culture Maniacs
True crime has been around for hundreds of years, arising not long after the invention of the printing press. Whether it serves as a warning to the populace that a pleasant neighborhood is no guarantee of safety, or as pure entertainment designed to satiate our innate curiosity about the unfathomable
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The culture war is sustained largely by reducing children to pawns, devices to deflect all criticism, stripping them of their agency and their voice. It's reaching a fever pitch, with the federal government and state administrations pushing various polices under the guise of protecting kids: book bans, barring
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"No dissent, only warmth."
Pop Culture Maniacs
The very first scene of Oh, Hi! announces the shape the story will take. Iris (Molly Gordon) has beckoned Max (Geraldine Viswanathan) to the vacation home she's sharing with her boyfriend Isaac (Logan Lerman) for the weekend. Both women are in disbelief about an unnamed "bad thing&
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"God bless your lost soul, and have a good night."
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"Your pain is not a coincidence. You are not a coincidence. We are not a coincidence. Will you fight?"
Pop Culture Maniacs
"To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world." - W. E. B. Du Bois
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"I've got enough ammunition for a world war."
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Kosinski attempts to cash in on the popularity of "Drive to Survive".
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"Memento amoris - remember you must love."
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"I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes."