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The Schleicher Spin · 6d ago

Don’t Mess with Texas or Bernie

I should preface this review by saying I’m no fan of Jack Black (though I think he sometimes gets an unfair wrap) or Shirley MacLaine (she’s a shrill weird old lady) or Matthew McConaughey (beat your bongos, son).  I like some of director Richard Linklater’s oeuvre – most notably Slacker, Waking Lif
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The Schleicher Spin · 1W ago

Issue Two of The Stone Digital Literary Magazine Now Available

The second issue of The Stone is now available for download at Amazon.com through the Kindle app! Cover art for Issue Two comes courtesy of award-winning British photographer Eleanor Leonne Bennett, and inside you will find great stories from three continents. Here’s a preview: Stretching my long le
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The Schleicher Spin · 2W ago

The Avengers or In the Name of Phil

Let’s get one thing straight – Scarlett Johansson is so smoldering in The Avengers, I was aghast.  I mean can this woman get any sexier?  And director Joss Whedon wisely places her in tight-fitting outfits and under perfect lighting and has her kick wall to wall ass as super assassin Black Widow.  A
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The Schleicher Spin · 3W ago

Alien vs Aliens vs My Childhood

Inspired by the fan-boy raving over at Condemned Movies and in anticipation of the June release of Ridley Scott’s prequel/not-a-prequel hybrid Prometheus, I decided to take a stroll down memory lane and revisit Scott’s iconic Alien and Cameron’s raucous Aliens. I have such fond childhood memories of
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The Schleicher Spin · 3W ago

Anticipation in Ron Rash’s The Cove

Anticipation. Our sweet-natured, sad-soul heroine Laurel anticipating her life to begin after a string of bad luck toiling away in the gloaming of the titular cove. Waiting for love to find her. Hank, Laurel’s brother who has returned home from Europe after losing his hand, newly betrothed and antic
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The Schleicher Spin · 1M ago

A Wheel Upon the Earth

While living for six years in the New South at the turn of the millennium, I was struck by a certain I-don’t-know-what-ness.  Underneath the smothering yet genuine gentility and kindness there was still an undercurrent of “sticking to your own kind” – and it wasn’t just down lines of race, but down
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The Schleicher Spin · 1M ago

The Cabin in the Woods

There’s an interesting moment about twenty minutes into Drew Goddard’s debut film, The Cabin in the Woods (co-scripted by Joss Whedon) where an inanely bad CGI bird comes gliding down into the open space outside a mountain tunnel and crashes into some kind of invisible electrified grid imprisoning a
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The Schleicher Spin · 1M ago

The Return of Game of Thrones and Even Stranger Bedfellows on Sunday Nights

Game of Thrones April 1st marks the welcome return of the most visceral and entertaining show on TV, HBO’s violently epic fantasy series, Game of Thrones.  I was a reluctant watcher when the show premiered last spring, but it sucked me in with its carefully tailored bouts of sex, war, politics, behe
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The Schleicher Spin · 1M ago

Weird Films I Have Seen

Three weeks…three really weird films from Netflix focused on three (or more) psychologically disturbed women. Where do I even begin?  Let’s start from the beginning. The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodovar Remember the episode of Seinfeld where George was dating the woman who looked like Jerry and Kram
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The Schleicher Spin · 2M ago

My Favorite Eats in My Favorite Haunts

I took a half-hearted stab at a local dining guide years ago, and at some point many of the restaurants listed below received a shout out in one way or another from The Spin or on my Twitter…but I decided it would be fun to traverse the eastern part of North America and crown a best restaurant in [.
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