On September 18, 1980, a technician at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, dropped a tool that punctured the side of a missile, spraying rocket fuel into the silo. That may sound like a minor mishap, but the fact that the missile contained a nuclear warhead that was 600 times more powerful than […]
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Sacrificing Character For Peculiarities In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’
Moviegoers should be at the point where they are wondering what has happened to Tim Burton. The extremely talented director appears to have lost his way, churning out easily forgetful movies that are making any future projects he creates happily avoidable–his latest being the practically disastrous Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Based on […]
‘Deepwater Horizon’: An All Access Pass To Hellfire
In 2010, an estimated 4.2 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The culprit, an uncapped BP wellhead, that for 87 days released oil and methane gas into the ocean. The effects of the catastrophe are still felt today due to the lingering environmental […]
‘The Hurt Business’ Shows The Bloody And Beaten Face Of Mixed Martial Arts…And Its Fighters
Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA for short, is the fastest growing sport in the United States today. Combining the flash of professional wrestling with the brutality of boxing, MMA draws thousands to live events and sells millions of pay-per-view orders. MMA is also the subject of a new documentary from Vlad Yudin (who also made […]
‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story’ – The Tell-All Story Behind The Phony Literary ‘It Boy’
JT LeRoy was a real-life Cinderella: an androgynous boy with a truck stop prostitute for a mother who lived a life of drug addiction and sexual abuse before becoming a literary phenomenon when his first autobiographical book, Sarah, was published in 1999. JT LeRoy was also a fraud: an identity manufactured by writer Laura Albert […]