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Winter’s Bone: This Year’s Best Picture Winner

July 8, 2010

Once a year, maybe twice if I’m lucky, a film comes along that reinforces my beliefs that film can be great once again. You know before Star Wars came along and screwed up the 70s and made Hollywood realize that movies equal money, and that story was no longer important. That’s a different blog. Last year [...]

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The Most Brilliant Vampire Film in Fifteen Years, Let the Right One In, Has Became a Shitty American Remake. Here’s Its Trailer.

July 2, 2010

It might not be shitty, but this is like remaking “The Godfather.” You just don’t do it. Chloe Moretz looks like she might follow up her Kick-Ass role as Hit Girl with something impressive. We’ll see. And if you have Netflix and haven’t see “Let the Right One In” you’re insane. Watch it now on Instant! [...]

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Black Beard Gloats: In Your Face, Print Media!

July 1, 2010

When I was traveling through the Midwest about a month ago, I randomly took a copy of the Wall Street Journal from the lobby of my hotel on the way out one morning, and on the front page was an article about the growing popularity of digital books. The reporting focused specifically on the rise [...]

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Breaking the Law: Listening to Music During a Flight Take-off

June 30, 2010

The reason Loveless is perfect for flight take-offs is due to the record’s hazy dissonance.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer

June 28, 2010
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A Summer Treat…Strawberry Lemonade Cheesecake Bars

June 27, 2010

Summer is in full swing in Washington, DC. It’s been over 90 degrees for the past week and my baking has been seriously put on hold. Not only is it just too hot to turn on the oven but it’s too hot to even eat what I usually love to bake (brownies)! So I’ve put [...]

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Black Beard’s Review of Contemporary Fiction and Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and Flannery O’Connor

June 25, 2010

In Poetics, Aristotle offers two valuable observations about the creation of art. First, and most significantly, Aristotle tells us “not to know that a hind has no horns is a less serious matter than to paint it inartistically”. In other words, it is less important for a writer not to be fully informed about the [...]

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Red Movie Trailer….Sexy, Sexy Dame Helen Mirren

June 24, 2010
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Knight and Day: More Accurately Describes the Differences in the Acting Abilities of Diaz and Cruise

June 23, 2010

It’s almost impossible to defend Tom Cruise. For a while I was able to do a pretty good job. But then there was the scientology and all of the couch jumping. So I’ve pretty much given up. But no matter how bad the movie, how stupid the story, Tom Cruise always wins me over. It makes [...]

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The First Trailer for Seth Rogen/Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet

June 23, 2010
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