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Post of the Week
This week’s Post of the Week honors go to Mark Judge’s excellent piece on Star Trek: Into Darkness. Check it…
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Nostalgia Gone Wild: Hollywood and Its Abysmal Remakes
Starting most notably with the Baby Boomers, Americans have become a very nostalgic people. When it comes to pop culture…
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The Unknown Steve McQueen
Last week my friend and Acculturated colleague R. J. Moeller wrote about C. S. Lewis, who died fifty years ago…
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Bollywood Films Showcase Love Stories without Irony
There are a lot of characteristics that make Bollywood movies so different from standard Hollywood fare. Since I’m a just…
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Six Movies That Interest Me in 2013
With the Oscars at our back and the summer blockbuster movie season dead-ahead, I decided to take a gander at…
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Zero Recognition for Zero Dark Thirty
After Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards, many noticed the Oscars’ silence in response to this year’s film directed by…
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The Acculturated Oscar Rundown
On Sunday, the world will be watching as the Academy Awards crowns this year’s best film. For the last several…
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Who Will Win the Best Picture Oscar–and Who Should?
by Mark Tapson As the 2013 Oscar telecast approaches this coming Sunday, keep this in mind when trying your hand…
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Hollywood and the Triumph of Silence
One of my favorite action sequences of any film is the Joker “truck flip” scene in The Dark Knight. And…
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Why Silver Linings Playbook Could Still Win Best Picture
Since it swept up the most coveted prizes at the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guilds…
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THE DAILY SCENE
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Cancer Survivor Melissa Etheridge Says Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy “Wasn’t a Brave Choice”–Mail Online
When Angelina Jolie underwent a preventative…
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Kim Kardashian, Kanye Need to “Focus” on Premature Baby, Says Dr. Oz–UsMagazine
Dr. Mehmet Oz has some cautionary…
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Buddhist Monks Are Having a Louis Vuitton Scandal–New York Magazine
A viral video showing Buddhist monks…
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Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity–The Atlantic
When a Christian foundation interviewed college…
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Albert Einstein’s Advice to His 11-Year-Old Son–Brain Pickings
“That is the way to learn…
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Interesting piece over at @Acculturated on the NBA Finals and what each team (loosely) represents acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… #DPRS
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What is Pop Culture? What is High Culture? acculturated.com/2013/05/08/wha… … via @Acculturated Must read!
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Watching the #NBAFinals? Read my review of the cultural implications of these two teams acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… @Acculturated #Heat #Spurs
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These pageants and tv shows about pageants continue to be a financial boon at the expense of female dignity. acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis… #tcot
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