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Sensibility and Sense
She Rides Shotgun was better than expected but ultimately unsatisfying. Polly is approached after school by a seeming stranger, who is her biological father, and recently released inmate, Nate. Nate wants to protect her from the gang that has already killed Polly’s mother and step-father, and that is searching for them, by taking her to…
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Wanting and Waiting
I decided after listening to an actor interview to see The Life of Chuck but left the movie theater frustrated and confused. This movie uses reverse chronology to tell Chuck’s life story from losing his parents and unborn sister in a car crash as a young boy and later his grandparents who raised him to…
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A Better Response?
WBEZ as was predicted held a pop-up fundraiser this week. This station and National Public Radio have been citing the $1.1 billion loss to their member stations. This money had already been authorized for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and included in member station budgets, but Congress at Trump’s request eliminated this funding as a…