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Words on Bathroom Walls

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 8/19/2020 8:19 PM EDT
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. While it is found in less than 1% of the United States population, it seems to be spread evenly amongst males and females. Men will generally start exhibiting symptoms in their late teens, which is earlier than females and can include hallucinations,... Read More

The One and Only Ivan

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 8/18/2020 12:07 PM EDT
Disney has been experimenting with live-action remakes for the past few years and in 2019 their latest released, The Lion King, was met with mixed reviews. Taking animated characters and making them real is difficult enough but imagine trying to do it with wild animals. Undeterred, Disney set its sights on another live-action, animal st... Read More

Boys State

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 8/14/2020 2:33 PM EDT
In 1937 the American Legion created essentially a one-week summer camp for high school students who will be entering their senior year after summer. Young Men and young women are nominated by their high schools and are then chosen by Legion members to attend what amounts to "politics camp" at a college within their state. Ther... Read More

Project Power

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 8/13/2020 9:04 PM EDT
Superheroes are (usually) the non-human, good guys with extraordinary powers who swoop in and save the day – hence the "heroes" part. Unless, of course, you are Batman, who happens to be a very wealthy man with deep-rooted psychological issues stemming from his parents' murders when he was younger. But what if any ordinary... Read More

High Score

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 8/12/2020 9:32 AM EDT
If you look up the definition of a video game you would find the following: a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen. At its most basic form, that is all it is. However, when you delve into the history behind video games, there is so much more than meets ... Read More

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan - Season Two

(Nathan M Rose) 8/3/2020 8:08 PM EDT
Jack Ryan is back! The second season of Amazon's spy thriller debuted on October 31, 2019. And like the first season you can now also own it on a physical Blu-ray on August 4th, 2020.The season brings back John Krasinski (The Office) in the title role as the CIA analyst turned field agent. This season's timeline is a few months after where ... Read More

Thirteen Ghosts (Collector's Edition)

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/28/2020 8:51 AM EDT
William Castle was born in 1914 and orphaned by the age of eleven. At fifteen he dropped out of high school to work in films. Over the course of his career he directed sixty-seven B-movies and produced twenty-five more including Rosemary's Baby. Many directors credit him with influencing them including Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho) an... Read More

Airplane!

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/27/2020 5:46 PM EDT
Paramount Presents, the film giant's attempt to bring back classic movies that had significantly contributed to the culture of their time, has already offered a number of fabulous and noteworthy films. From Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock) portraying a waiter/would-be singer in King Creole to groups of teens representing their peers in Pret... Read More

Scoob!

(Maureen Buccellato) 7/23/2020 5:39 PM EDT
Scooby-Doo is one of those characters that just stands the test of time. For 51 years this iconic cartoon has been a constant part of our lives. The latest iteration of this lovable pup is Scoob!, which premiered on video on demand May 15, 2020. The film was originally set to debut in theatres but plans changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This fil... Read More

Clueless

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 7/20/2020 5:55 AM EDT
I'm sure when Jane Austen wrote Emma over 200 years ago, she never imagined the main character would utter the words, "As if" in order to show her disdain for an idea or a person. However, when a modern-day version of the story was released in theaters back in 1995, that is exactly what the main character, Cher (Alicia Silversto... Read More