Unchained Horror by James Roland Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead met as interns at Ridley Scott’s commercial production company. Soon they were working together on a variety of short films and spec advertisements, and when Justin approached Aaron with a genre-bending horror script called Resolution, they decided to pool their talents and resources to get […]
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English Class as It’s Meant to Be by Andrew Collins My high school English class was a waste of time at best — destructive to the human spirit at worst. I suspect I am not alone. These classes foist brilliant literature on kids before they’ve grown mature enough to enjoy it, and it turns them […]
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California Dream by Jack Simons A Honda showroom in Monterey, California – January 1966 – not a fancy place, just a concrete slab structure with large display windows set between Del Monte Avenue and the beach – a landscape of scraggly trees and sand-acclimated weeds. In a back room the owner showed us a prototype […]
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It Was the Worst of TV, It Was the Best of TV by Stephen Simons We have all seen the headlines. “This just in (again): Television is DEAD,” soon to be replaced forever by a nine-year-old’s four-minute video of cats chasing lasers (or possibly cats shooting lasers). And the recalcitrant old guard media giants scramble to make us keep watching […]
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Life, Curated. by Heather M. Surls My writing professor repeatedly gave two pieces of advice in his classes: be specific, definite, and concrete and avoid using “to be” verbs. He had culled these from Strunk and White, which he read five times in the army and which sits on the shelf under my desk, spine cracked with use, […]
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Deep Mysteries by Lena Rivera What creatures thrive in the airless depths beneath the waves, and what might their intentions be? Such questions, lodged in the psyche of mankind from time immemorial, have sparked the imaginations of countless dreamers, spawning superstitions, myths, legends, novels and now films. […]
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Gladwell Gets Spiritual by Andrew Collins “The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” So opens Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. The quote comes from the biblical account of the story of David, who […]
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No Blameless Vestals Here by Andrew Collins Before there was Inception, there was . . . a Jim Carrey rom-com? Something like that. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a 2004 project from director Michel Gondry, pushes the bounds of verisimilitude at only one point — in the world of the film, mind-wiping technology exists […]
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“Welcome to Washington” by Andrew Collins House of Cards, the (triple) Emmy Award winning political drama created exclusively for Netflix, taps into our darkest fascinations and confirms our worst fears about the elite political scene in American politics. It left me sickened, but unable to turn away as a plethora of multifaceted characters maneuvered and masqueraded […]
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Infernal Combustion Engine by James Roland For the layman, every car runs by magic. Under the hood lies an oil-slick mass of tubes and pipes and fire, bound together by basic science, brought to life with a simple flick of a key, but when it roars to life it becomes something far more than its […]
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