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A Song for Bob Dylan: Hunky Dory In 1971 David Bowie released his first great record, Hunky Dory. Along with landmark songs like Changes and Life on Mars, the album features several songs that are tributes to Bowie’s role models. These include Andy Warhol, Song for Bob Dylan, and Queen Bitch which is supposedly about […]

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How to Get Into Humphery Bogart

Humphrey Bogart is the most important person in the history of male screen acting.  If you want to know where Brando got his edge check out Bogart’s performance in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, if you want to see the controlled, nuanced, menace that Pacino shows in The Godfather Part 2 watch Bogart in Nicholas […]

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: A Retrospective

The Falcon and Winter Soldier should have been a home run for me. Captain America is my favorite MCU character and one of my favorite superheroes. The chemistry between Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan and, the two Captain America sequels are perfect movies. I figured that Bucky and Sam fighting bad guys for six episodes […]

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The Searchers: Progressive Politics in Unlikely Places

There are few movies as iconic as the John Ford western classic, The Searchers. Its influence can be seen on everything from Star Wars to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, to just about every Martin Scorsese movie. The story follows Ethan’s, played by John Wayne, five-year journey to find his niece, Debbie, played by a young […]