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Continue reading →: Pirates: Dead Men Tell No Tales Movie Review
The next in a series of some of my favorite movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. What a mouthful. It’s impossible to think about the new Pirates movie without comparing it to the previous ones. Does it have the novelty of Pirates 1? Does it have the thrilling action…
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Continue reading →: Wonder Woman Movie Review
I saw Wonder Woman with some friends. It was a good superhero movie, but I feel as if I’ve grown away from the genre despite still enjoying it in theory. The movie stars Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Chris Pine as her sidekick WW1 soldier. Wonder Woman is, as far…
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Continue reading →: Everything, Everything Movie Review
Everything, Everything is an unusual teen romance starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson. Stenberg plays Maddy, an eighteen year-old afflicted with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). It’s a condition similar to AIDS in which she has a severely weakened immune system. Relatively common diseases, like the flu, can kill her. Maddy…
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Continue reading →: On Killing Book Review
I finished Lt. Col Dave Grossman’s book On Killing recently. It’s about soldiers’ resistance to kill, how the military overcomes that instinct, and the larger reprecussions of that type of training on society. It is not a “how-to” book as I feared many people might’ve thought whenever I read it in…
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Continue reading →: Beauty and the Beast Movie Review
Disney’s latest live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast, is out and I’ve seen it. The movie is very much a remake of the 1991 animated movie. The plot, the songs, the characters, all pretty much the same. For those who aren’t familiar with the story (really though?) Beauty and the Beast tells…






