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The dingoes didn’t eat your socks but we do know what did... sock monsters. They’re in every household orphaning our foot protectors and torturing anyone in a rush to get to work or school. With all these socks and no pairs you’re stuck with three options: throw the socks away, use them as cleaning towels (they make good dusters) or keep them in a [sock] basket and wait until the monster grants you leniency and awards you for being so optimistic.

Truth is you will never find that sock. They become as elusive as let’s say the Bigfoot, Loch Ness, or the chupacabra. Maybe you saw it once underneath the couch, a true sighting of which you have proof: a picture.It’s graining but dammit there it is your precious cotton blend. You return to the location of the sighting hoping to reunite it with its mate; however, it’s not there. Three months later, you see it again but what the hell are you going to do with just one sock?

Over time human-kind has been given many hints as to what “things” may inhabit this earth hidden in plain sight. To see is to believe and henceforth we become skeptics. Grainy pictures are fun and all but where’s the real proof? Where’s the Harry to my Hendersons!

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This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.

Movies with actors doing Russian Things:

1. Vanessa Angel from Spies Like Us
2. Viggo Mortenson from that one killer movie, Eastern Promises
3. Everyone in White Nights. Even Gregory Hines, a defector from the U.S. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini
4. Salt - Angelina Jolie

Red Sparrow is a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, about a young ballerina recruited into an elite organization of spies who use sex, not guns as a weapon.

• Red Sparrow opened at the wrong time of the #metoo movement, or was it just in time to justify the cause?

This, That and Other News

• The case of Sergei and Anna Chapman.
• Maria Butina who sales couches and US gun toting charm.
• This guy fakes his own death to elude an assassination plot.
• Sex coaches offer up the goods, America doesn't bite.
• The Cold War scare. Even in the early eighties, we had to prepare for a potential bomb scare/ nuclear fallout. Duck and cover.

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Black Panther is the only black James Bond we need. He has the tech, a suave demeanor, and the well intent to undermine criminal minds who threaten his nations. It would be great to have a black James Bond character on the big screen but as long as he or she is not James Bond and more Bond-like. I’m bored of remakes and studio attempts to reinsert old titles into the modern day film industry by way of cultural appropriation: Female Ghostbusters, a black James Bond. Good ideas. Lazy imagination.

The sole popularity of the title and name of a product (the film) remains the only selling point for the repurposing a franchise with different faces of gender or race.

I hate the idea of that guy from Get Out as black bond; it’s only an accurate casting because he's British.

• Traits Black Panther and James Bond share
• Starks and T-Challa
• The opposite moral compass
• What makes a King - Scoop du Jour
• Snipes and the Blank Panther Film that never was
• No matter how you spin it, movies don't have a race.

Wesley Snipes and the Black Panthermovie that never was but came to become.

Daniel Kaluuya as James Bond

Always bet on black, and please pay your taxes.

Don't sneak up on me like that colonizer.

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Ever get in a boring discussion about marriage and wish there was something more to be said about matrimony that in some way relates to Shark Week? Well there is all that and then some in the context of the movie Open Water. Lost a sea, we watch as a couple struggle with the failure to communicate and how life is always better than being eaten by sharks.

1. Liam Neeson did that to himself.

2. 15:17 To Paris and the Hollywood movie meant for Lifetime.

3. Patriots Day and true event films. How long to wait before we capitalize on a tragedy.

4. When art transcends admiration.

5. Eurotrip: The Movie we don't have now.

Liam Nesson takes the low road, on purpose.

C'mon, bruh, you volunteered this information which allowed the media to run away with it. However, should we care? Will we somehow erase the memory of watching this man portray roles in Schindler's List, Star Wars: Episode One, or all the Taken movies?

What he said was stupid and insensitive. Who he is, is flawed like you and me.

15:17 to Paris is not a Clint Eastwood, like, Movie - On The Thread

• 15:17 should begin after the train attack.
• Clint Eastwood offended people with some of his views on Hilary Clinton during and after the election. He is a person who is a famous actor and director. Who cares what he thinks. His art is what we relate to the man, not the other way around.
• Of his 39 credits as director, 15:17 is far from any exemplary in comparison to his previous productions.
• 15:17 played too much like a Lifetime movie, which made it almost unbearable to watch.
• Recognizable movie and television actors also made it difficult to believe a story that is a true story.
• This movie portrays true events with those involved at the time it occurred. Less recognizable actors would make this film more convincing.
• Eastwood tried to tell the tale of these four heroes as truthful as he possibly could but ended up hurting Hollywood appeal by coming at this project wearing kids gloves.

Spending twenty minutes with these fellows on vacation while sightseeing was boring.

All the drama occurred at the end of this film, whereas, it ignored the issue of every life that is not so spectacular: the single mother raising her child, the effect of a young boy losing his best friend, and a man’s struggle to find a place in a world where he needed fit in.

Patriots Day and applying Hollywood ascetic to real life events.

The real heroes of this very real event are the first responders. Stories of their bravery in a time of crisis are good stories to be told on Good Morning America or with news outlets, however, to capture the Hollywood flair, movie depiction of horrible events have to include some sort of stretch to the imagination.

Stories change with each retelling.

The shootout at the end of Patriots Day between the two terrorists and law enforcement, although not accurately depicted, added a Hollywood pizazz to events that in realtime occurred quickly and without dramatic pause.

15:17 To Paris reminded me of that EuroTrip Movie in a way but less boring.

If you really want a Eurotrip movie, then stay away from Hostile aka torture porn movies of the early 2000s. Watch this silly film about a high school graduate in search of his pen pal and love of his life.

1. Michelle Trachtenberg of Buffy fame. 2. Matt Damon 3. Stupid comedy movies and the event film. 4. Teen angst movies: there are none. Only things kids are into these days is Juuls and Fortnite. 5. It’s just a different world.

When Art Transcends Admiration - Scoop Du Jour

I was upset by past rhetoric expressed by Clint Eastwood years ago and lost admiration for a man I thought was a great visionary and storyteller. However, one doesn't associate with the other. His thoughts on Hilary Clinton doesn't reflect on his filmmaker vision.

Reality stars, actors, and sports heroes are not who we imagine them to be in most instances; they are people. What we admire is their art, the characters, and on-screen personas. Nowadays with social media, we know more about them as individuals and it's not flattering.

No matter how mundane they are in comparison to the most popular Twitch streamer or Youtube star, your story matters. If you want to tell that story, go on ahead while the getting is good. We have the technology and other means, so why not? The stupidest person in the world can have a Youtube or blog account.

We invest in idols and the characters we believe they are. Reality stars, actors, and sports heroes, sometimes they are not who we imagine them to be.

No matter how mundane they are in comparison to the most popular Twitch streamer or Youtube star, your story matters. If you want to tell that story, then go on ahead while the getting is good. We have the technology and other means, so why not. The stupidest person in the world likely has a youtube or blog account.

Weekly Gratitude: Our realities might not be great, but they are our stories.