Month: January 2016
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Movie Review: “Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope” (George Lucas, USA 1977)
Introduction Just as a fun project, I’m going to watch all previous Star Wars films except for Episode I and write reviews. I’ve seen the original trilogy before but I’ve never seen Episodes II and III. However, even the original trilogy I have not watched for a very long time, so this is definitely my first look…
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Movie Review: “Concussion” (Peter Landesman, UK/Australia/USA 2015)
This is the basic premise of Concussion: an immigrant doctor uncovers a terrible brain injury being caused by football and works to bring it to light. That premise could be used to make films about a number of things. It could be a film about how terrible Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is, by using Omalu’s discovery as…