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2 weeks ago | 
yellowhammernews.com | Derek Chen |Grayson Everett
Imagine quietly invading a foreign country without making the first threat, firing a single bullet, or raising any alarm. Instead of taking hostile action, you simply purchase the nation you are invading one acre at a time. That is exactly what China is doing in the United States today. It is becoming increasingly obvious that Chinese Communists will stop at nothing to exert control in the United States.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
spectrumculture.com | Derek Chen
In marked contrast to the rest of the film, the culminating sequence of Oceans Are the Real Continents, with its dynamic lighting and time-condensing narrative, sees a marionette show being staged in a local theater. The story being told is that of father and son, both faceless proxies; it opens with the father playing the violin for his infant son, and goes on to portray pivotal stages of their shared lives.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
spectrumculture.com | Derek Chen
With 2024 now behind us, humanity has borne witness to Israel’s relentless campaign against the occupied Palestinian people for more than 15 months, resulting in the deaths of over 45,000 Palestinians, continued blocking of international aid to civilians and the indiscriminate destruction of hospitals, roads and universities.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
spectrumculture.com | Derek Chen
Since the late 2000s, Pamela Anderson has largely appeared as a relic of the past. Outside of a vague cultural presence due to Baywatch and her infamous sex tape, which were magnified for the next generation by their inclusion in the 2006 film Borat, she had mostly been reduced to sex symbol iconography.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
spectrumculture.com | Derek Chen
Make some space, Madame Web — here comes a late contender for the worst movie of the year. Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story marks the latest installment in the Trailer Park Boys Cinematic Universe, 23 years on from the original television series’ debut. The movie follows Bubbles and his newly formed country-rock band — with Randy (Patrick Roach) serving as their roadie — as they embark on a European tour with Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
spectrumculture.com | Derek Chen
With the holiday season looming over us, it would appear that it’s time to brace ourselves for the waves of cheesy nostalgic kitsch that come with it. First on the list is A Sudden Case of Christmas, the latest effort — if it can be called that — from Danny DeVito & Co. A remake of the 2022 Italian film Improvvisamente Natale also produced by Notorious Pictures to similarly inconsequential effect, this straight-to-VOD snoozefest may as well be going straight into the dustbin.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
yellowhammernews.com | Derek Chen
In the summer of 2015, I was between my freshman and sophomore years at Hope College. I was studying political science, and I was active in the College Republicans chapter. I always considered myself a close observer of the political news and events of the day, but as the Presidential election cycle kicked into gear this time, I watched with especially great interest. The 2016 election cycle was special to me as it was the first election that I was old enough to vote in.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
yellowhammernews.com | Derek Chen
On September 7, 2013, during a foreign visit in Kazakhstan, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana. In his speech, Xi announced that his government would be pursuing a strategy to provide for transportation infrastructure development and deepen trade partnerships with China’s neighbors. Xi proposed building a new economic belt with China’s neighbors which would essentially act as a new, modern Silk Road.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
yellowhammernews.com | Derek Chen
On September 7, 2013, during a foreign visit in Kazakhstan, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana. In his speech, Xi announced that his government would be pursuing a strategy to provide for transportation infrastructure development and deepen trade partnerships with China’s neighbors. Xi proposed building a new economic belt with China’s neighbors which would essentially act as a new, modern Silk Road.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
spectrumculture.com | Derek Chen
When a manga gets greenlit for an anime adaptation, it’s just about as comprehensive a storyboard as you can get — but it’s one that already exists in the public consciousness. Therefore, it’s up to the anime studio to inject a certain dynamism into the adaptation which justifies its existence.
