Month: April 2017

One Year On One Year On, #1 (2017)

One Year On, #1 (2017)

Dark Souls III and Ratchet & Clank   On April 12th last year, new additions to two beloved video game franchises were released to much anticipation and fanfare. In most ways, they couldn’t have been more different from one another: there’s Dark Souls III, a moribund slog through an oblique medieval world full of blisteringly difficult enemies requiring …

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52 Films By Women 14. Whip It, directed by
Drew Barrymore

14. Whip It, directed by
Drew Barrymore

Roller Derby and Bruises the Size of Your Face   I love any movie with an underdog and a hidden talent. Bliss (Ellen Page) certainly checks both of these boxes in the delightfully entertaining Whip It, directed by Drew Barrymore. Stifled by a small-town life where roads lead to dead-ends, Bliss and best friend Pash (Alia …

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Songs Beyoncé’s “Die With You” is the Flipside of Lemonade

Beyoncé’s “Die With You” is the Flipside of Lemonade

This Touching Tribute to Her Marriage is the Final Word on How She’s Been Faring Since Last Year’s “Revelations”   Two years ago, on the seventh anniversary of her marriage to rapper/mogul Jay Z, Beyoncé uploaded a video of her performing the stripped-back ballad “Die With You”. It’s undoubtedly her best song that hasn’t seen wider …

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Episodes The Walking Dead, S07E16

The Walking Dead, S07E16

Apparently This is “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life”.  I Am Utterly, Incontinently Terrified by That Notion   I can’t do a typical write-up for this episode, recounting the plot and remarking on its significance, trying to parse out some thematic relevance in proceedings or discussing how the characters move from A …

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