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[REVIEW] Good to the Last Gasp
Darkness. For the first four and a half minutes of Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, nothing is seen; instead, all that is heard is the gentle creaking of wood and the sense of growing alarm. Testing your surroundings, you feel the sharp prick of stray wood chips. Pushing against the wooden wall above you, the truth begins to dawn on you: you’re trapped. This scenario is the premise of Buried, director Rodrigo Cortes’ second feature film starring ...
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[REVIEW] Let’s Have a Toast for the Douchebags
Kanye West is a douchebag. The Chicago native is by no means an individual that deserves pity or sympathy. Far removed from his acclaimed debut, The College Dropout, West has fully embraced the culture that he regretted to rap about on the Dropout track “Breathe In, Breathe Out.” Though West declared that he “always said if I rapped I’d say something significant,/ But now I’m rappin’ ’bout money, hoes, and rims again.” And in My ...