Posts in 2025
MOVIE REVIEW: One Battle After Another

Incontrovertibly, the loudest word reverberating out of Paul Thomas Anderson’s imposing crime saga and instant awards season juggernaut, One Battle After Another, is “revolution.” When an ambitious movie, no matter the subgenre, invokes that term as its core for conflict, it sets out to establish a setting and context of corruption while positioning a potentially dramatic and dangerous chessboard of characters prepared to take risks and fight against their marked opposition.

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Advocacy and Lobbying: How to Advocate and Lobby for Your Nonprofit Issues

Serving communities, defending rights, and promoting social justice are the goals that give rise to nonprofit organizations. Although providing direct service is at the core of their work, bringing about significant and long-lasting change calls for more than just implementing programs; it also entails influencing the laws and institutions that have an impact on people's lives. 

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Rubber Plantation Economics and Commodity Cycles Affecting Malaysian Forex Trading Communities

Malaysia's rubber plantation heritage creates unique forex trading patterns that reflect the boom-bust cycles of agricultural commodities and the economic rhythms of rural communities. Rubber tappers, plantation owners, and processing facility operators develop natural understanding of global supply chains and price volatility that translates well to currency market analysis.

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How Expert Guidance Can Safeguard Your Record

Nowadays, dealing with charges for driving after using alcohol or drugs can change your life at home and at work. You might have to pay fines, lose your license, or end up with a criminal record that stays with you for more years. In these times, having good support is very important. Getting help from experts can help keep your future safe and give you the best shot at moving on without things getting worse.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Doin' It

Starring the multi-talented Lilly Singh, the sex farce comedy flies a bunting’s worth of freak flags, all of them willfully fluttering with pride and wantonness in the face of pearl-clutching prudeness and opposition. While it stumps for modernity to do away with antiquated thinking on a few topics, Doin’ It also turns back the clock to bring back a downright horny level of raunch, a tone setting long abandoned by studios and missed by plenty of audiences.

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PODCAST: Episode 212 of "The Cinephile Hissy Fit" Podcast

For their 212th episode, two mangled film critics, two serial killer dads, and two sautéed teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, venture into the smoky vapors of Ridley Scott trying to relight the victory cigar of the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. Until this summer, Will had never seen Scott’s gaudy Anthony Hopkins sequel Hannibal. Meanwhile, the slightly older Don was first in line for the intestines-spilling feats in 2001 and has the shocked and appalled reactions seared into memory

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