Author: Scott William Foley
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Captain Marvel – A Movie Review
The good news is that my original concern regarding Captain Marvel seems unfounded. The bad news is that Captain Marvel is a wasted opportunity. Allow me to elaborate. I won’t go into too much detail about this movie for fear of spoiling it for you, but I will discuss some broad strokes. First of all,…
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A Star Is Born – A Movie Review
You may have noticed a trend in which I’ve been watching a lot of movies recently released on DVD that I wanted to see in the theater. A Star Is Born is yet another example of one such movie. I should start by mentioning that I haven’t seen any of the previous iterations of this…
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My Unpopular Concern Regarding Captain Marvel
There’s a lot riding on Marvel’s latest installment, Captain Marvel. With this being the final chapter leading into what we can only believe to be the end of the current iteration of Marvel movies (a journey that’s lasted over ten years), Captain Marvel has to get it just right. I have three concerns I’d like to…
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Bohemian Rhapsody – A Movie Review
It wasn’t until this movie started getting mentioned for Oscar nominations that I gained an interest in it. Honestly, while I like Queen well enough, I had no interest in seeing a biopic about the band. I kind of figured it … wouldn’t be good. How many movies about real bands have been good? Back…
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You Should Enroll In The Umbrella Academy
If you’re looking for a new show to binge, I highly recommend Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy. I just finished it last night and it’s one of the only series that I’ve ever watched that made me think to myself, “I can’t wait to watch this whole thing again.” There’s something absolutely delightful about this show…
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Weekends – My Favorite Oscar-Nominated Animated Short (Which Did Not Win)
A friend invited me to watch a complete showing of the 2019 Oscar-nominated animated short films last Friday night at the beautiful Normal Theater. I didn’t know anything about the nominees, but I thought it sounded like a fun time so I went. All of the nominees were very good in their own particular way,…
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All Hail Jeff Passan! … Wait, Who’s Jeff Passan?
I’ve written before about my love of The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz. They are a daily radio show on ESPN that take a slightly different approach to sports. Often hilarious, they are also always entertaining. A new guest debuted today–Jeff Passan. Passan spent over a decade with Yahoo Sports and just joined ESPN…
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I Once Made An Amazing Basketball Play … That My Coach Hated
Though I now love basketball as an adult, I wasn’t into it at all as a child. In fact, I didn’t really start playing basketball until I entered seventh grade. I’m guessing a four inch growth spurt (also, my last growth spurt) prompted this interest in the sport. I liked it a lot, more than…
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Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer – A Book Review
I did it! I finally finished this series! Sorry. That’s not very eloquent. You’ll remember that I enjoyed the movie Annihilation, so I read the source material of the same name and found myself … less impressed. I let a bit of time pass by and then gave the second book–Authority–a chance. It also failed…
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