Category: Culture
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An Amateur’s Guide to New York City’s Jazz Scene
The jazz scene in New York City is inexhaustibly vibrant, its history running deep. St. Albans in Queens, New York, was titled the “jazz suburb” from the sheer amount of performers residing in the area; the Harlem Renaissance perfectly seized the musical zeitgeist of this Manhattan neighborhood through jazz; and of course, the West Village…
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Iron Lung isn’t perfect but it didn’t have to be
Based on the 2022 indie game of the same name, the pipeline from game to movie was incredibly fast. Mark’s first video on Iron Lung was released in May 2022, with the announcement trailer for the game coming in April 2023. With the exception of 3 trailers, the film’s advertising was mostly word of mouth. …
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Wicked: For Good and The Empathification of Oppressors
Wicked: For Good is a well-intentioned movie with a good spirit and lively storyline that was simply put in clumsy hands. Of course, watching the movie, I worried to myself that maybe this movie made for children and people who participated in community theatre was not meant to be taken so seriously; then, I thought…