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Movie Review: “The Revenant” (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, USA 2015)
“‘Tis unnatural Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. And Duncan’s horses–a thing most strange and certain– Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending ‘gainst obedience,…
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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…
