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Film Review: Some Like It Hot, Monroe Plays Herself
The film is worth a watch based solely on the jazz and swing music, and other ballads featuring Monroe’s adroit vocal stylings.
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Huck Finn’s “Problematic” Ending
Those who are disappointed in the ending of the book should maybe learn to get a sense of humor and loosen up a bit.
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Huck & Jim’s Friendship in Huck Finn
The more Jim is fully human, the less appropriate the n-word becomes, though that is Huck’s only frame of reference as a Southerner through which to regard Jim.
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Avatar: The Way of the Water and Reverse-Assimilation
In a case of reverse-assimilation, it isn’t the indigenous that adapt in Avatar: The Way of the Water; it is those from the first world.
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Satire & Vernacular in Huck Finn
In terms of craft, nonstandard dialect and irony are two of the weapons in Twain’s arsenal which make Huck Finn such a singular work of art.
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Elvis’s Best Film: King Creole
Elvis may have preferred to be a more serious actor without the musical numbers. Unfortunately for him, he’s Elvis. People want to hear him sing and dance.
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Kari Lake’s Lawsuit Had No Chance, But Did She Have Merit?
Republicans need to figure out how to prevent election day disasters from happening in the first place.
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Film Review: Sean Penn’s Into the Wild
Whereas in the book Christopher McCandless does not display any particular literary skill, in the film, Emile Hirsch’s Christopher McCandless is a veritable poet.
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Into the Wild: Adolescent Angst Gone Wrong
In his moral fervor, Christopher McCandless thought he knew a better way of living than the rest of us.
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