The Jazz Singer: The CliffsNotes
Neil Diamond is a helluva performer, despite whatever snarky nonsense your nifty, hip, cool friends may utter. He’s also a damn fine songwriter, in an occasionally on-the-nose sort of way. Say what you will, there’s a reason his career has lasted nearly sixty years.
Neil Diamond is not, however, an actor!
His lone star turn, 1980’s The Jazz Singer is practically the reason the Razzie Awards exist… I’m not kidding. Like all previous iterations…
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The Jazz Singer 1980
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When Worlds Collide 1951
Out in the inky, measureless depths of space is a star hurtling towards earth, and there is nothing humanity can do to stop it. It’s not giving much of the plot away when I say that our little blue planet will explode in a dramatic ball of fire and dust.
Before it all ends, 1951’s When Worlds Collide works overtime to make sure we care about who’s there (and who’s not) when it does. Forty years before Michael Bay and…
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989
Let’s talk ego! Put simply: ego is that part of all of us that creates a personal sense of self. It is how we define ourselves from the inside out. Some egos are bigger than others.
Now let’s talk hubris! Here we have what is defined as an excessive amount of pride in one’s abilities and self, to a point where the only logical end result of the choices a person makes is failure.
Ego and Hubris are keys to…
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Star Trek: First Contact 1996
Nostalgia is deeply personal, despite what the era of clickbait will tell you. It is a lense through which we view the world, and no two lenses are alike. This is important to remember when related to subjects about which many people are passionate… like Star Trek!
It is through this lense of personal nostalgia that I view Star Trek First Contact as a white-knuckle space adventure of the highest calibre, even twenty-two years (and many, many viewings) after its…Translated from by
