• To be honest, I didn’t have much faith going in that this would be a good movie. However, I’m a bit surprised at how much fun it turned out to be. I haven’t seen Halle Berry in ages and truth be told, I haven’t exactly followed her career. Most I’ve ever heard of her mentioned…

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    Never Let Go movie poster

  • I’ve always liked Colin Farrell. Ever since Phone Booth, I’ve been rooting for the guy. It’s weird because although one can argue that there are a lot of better actors out there, I find that a lot of movies he stars in just fits him so perfectly well, which obviously makes it a joy to…

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    Sugar poster

  • Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order by Saleha Mohsin talks about a critical topic concerning both today and the future in regard to the world’s most used currency, the United States dollar. Over the decades, the dollar has been slowly used to transform both the economic landscape around the…

    Paper Soldiers book cover

  • Admittingly, I’m not been the biggest of fan of the Alien franchise. However, the first Alien movie of 1979 I do admit is a pure classic. It was ahead of its time, and the alien creature was the stuff of pure sci-fi horror. Even by today’s standard, the creature, I feel, can still lure in…

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    Alien: Romulus movie poster

  • We’re taking it back to New York in episode #9! Specifically, we’re heading to the Bed-Stuy neighborhood in Brooklyn. One rapper who represents Bed-Stuy to the fullest has got to be Maino. In fact, I just found out that August 16 is officially dedicated as Maino day! Maino was definitely a controversial type of dude.…

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    Maino & Lloyd Banks - My Bandana

  • In a world gone totally crazy, your private information given to companies no longer seems safe. Security breaches where a bad guy somehow is able to steal databases worth of customer information is becoming a normal type of event. I had just this year received in the mail a couple of letters warning that some…

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    Freezing your credit

  • Looks like someone decided it was a good idea to make yet another zombie movie. Not a bad idea, considering there will always be hardcore zombie fans that will gobble them up. But who thought this would be a good movie? Definitely wouldn’t have been me. However, I love to support international movies, especially in…

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  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson is an incredibly insightful book on just why is it that some nations are prosperous while many others are not. The authors go to explain how and why many explanations conjured up by economists regarding this topic get it wrong.…

    Why Nations Fail book cover

  • Hmm….let me think for just a second. OK, yeah, this movie was slightly below average. However, it had potential to be better. Daddy’s Head is one of those horror movies that Shudder pumps out that are either hits or misses. Unfortunately, this one fell into the latter category. For my part, I am extremely glad…

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    Daddy's Head movie poster

  • There’s bound to be songs that you’ve heard a long, long time ago that you’re having trouble recalling years or even decades later. One day, curiously, a part of the song just pops in your head. This could either be the chorus, the beat, the singer or suddenly recalling a fond memory you’ve experienced and…

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    Mike Matsubara 1980 photo