Bingham's Notebook: Time Travel, Alternate Realities, and Alien Civilizations
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Cool Filmz: Did Obi Wan Use the Jedi Mind Trick on Han Solo in A New Hope?
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Rewatching the Star Wars saga can be a revelation. When you revisit these movies, especially in something like Machete Order, you start noticing details that may have slipped past you the first — or tenth — time.
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Cool Filmz: Give Palpatine Credit — Darth Vader’s Suit Is The Ultimate Employer "Reasonable Accommodation"
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Reasonable accommodations in the workplace are usually associated with things like modified schedules, adaptive equipment, standing desks, accessible workspaces, or software that helps people do their jobs more effectively.
Cool Filmz: Revisiting A Review of DaVinci Code Starring Tom Hanks
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It’s funny what you find when digging through old files. The other day, I stumbled across a review I wrote years ago for The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard’s 2006 adaptation of Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel starring Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon.
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Cool Filmz: Revisiting Conspiracy Theory (1997)
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Every so often, I dig through old files and find a movie review I forgot I wrote. This one goes way back to 2007, when I was writing for a now-defunct site called Coverups.com. Since Cool Filmz gives me a place to dust off these older reviews, I figured Richard Donner’s Conspiracy Theory was worth revisiting.
CoolFilmz: Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie? Yes—It's Home Alone for Grownups
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“Ho. Ho. Ho. Now I have a machine gun.”
That is not exactly the kind of line you expect from a cozy holiday classic. It is not Bing Crosby by the fireplace. It is not Jimmy Stewart rediscovering the meaning of life in Bedford Falls. It is Hans Gruber reading a message scrawled on the body of one of his henchmen after John McClane has officially begun ruining the Nakatomi Plaza Christmas party.
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