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Frigid Winter Warming Spectacular: Best Nuclear Explosion! (Pt. 2)

There’s little doubt my six or so loyal readers gobbled up Part One at a single sitting and, barely satiated, started pounding silverware on the table demanding more destruction porn. Let me oblige posthaste. As you’ll recall, we critiqued Hollywood’s take on nuclear explosions in six films: Asteroid City, The Dark Knight Rises, The Day After, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Failsafe and Fat Man and Little Boy. Let’s now light the fuse on our next five!

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Film Adaptations of John le Carré’s Novels: Part 2

In the two+ months since my shocking windfall courtesy Mrs. Renate Magdalena Settnik, Burkina Faso’s favorite paralyzed-philanthropic-German-widow daughter, my personal finances have taken something of a nosedive. With my accounts mysteriously drained, my credit rating in shambles and my utilities shut off for non-payment, I now find myself offering windshield

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