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Feb 6
Feb 6 100 WORD FILM REVIEWSThe Cloverfield Paradox

There’s a reason why The Cloverfield Paradox, the third entry in the Cloverfield franchise, was dumped onto Netflix. It’s not that The Cloverfield Paradox is necessarily awful, either. This sci-fi adventure about a team of scientists trapped in another dimension is simply too forgettable, employing a bag of sci-fi tropes and moments of “unexplained weirdness” to fill its hour-and-42-minute runtime. The Cloverfield Paradox does have moments of competency, but it strives to go nowhere. Once the bag of tricks runs out, so does the film.

I believe it was Virgil who once said, “Beware of [movie producers] bearing gifts.”

Feb 6
Feb 6 100 WORD FILM REVIEWSWinchester

Drunk Monkeys Film Department

Winchester commits the ultimate horror movie sin: it’s boring. So, so, so, so, so boring. I walked out at the end of the climax because I couldn’t bare to sit through any more of the film. Nothing can save it, not even Helen Mirren herself. I’m not going to talk about the movie anymore because it’s terrible and I feel asleep trying to write the synopsis. Go read about the Winchester Mystery House on Wikipedia, then watch any other Helen Mirren movie (except RED2) and pretend Winchester never happened. You’re welcome.

Feb 5
Feb 5 POETRYStrange Travelers Once 1984 Set In HardKing Grossman

there in this muddled breathing was learnt
takes a paintbrush more than bulging biceps
a fountain pen instead of a saw, hammer, and boards

Feb 5
Feb 5 POETRYthe poem you did not write for me i wrote for myselfCatherine Weiss

i didn’t have anything appropriate
to put in a scrapbook
can you see where this is going?

Feb 5
Feb 5 POLITICSJunk Food from Inside the Deconstructing State:Michael Wolff's Fire and FuryM.G. Poe

M.G. Poe braves the mire and muck of Fire and Fury, Michael wolff's gossipy exploration of the Trump White House.

Feb 5
Feb 5 ARTHidden Treasures 7Seigar

Feb 5
Feb 5 ARTLove SpentSeigar

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONA Loss of InnocenceTom WardWriter of the Month

The boy held the note as long as he could, hardly noticing the heat burning his fingers, then he let the scraps fly out into the air like the flaming wreck of a paper plane. He watched until the flames were pinched out by the night and the note was no more.

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONKalopsiaTom WardWriter of the Month

... the first time he saw her was the last and this grief slowly grew inside him and began to replace the old grief, until, eventually, the loss of both people settled in Jack’s stomach and he thought only of the first, wearing the memory like a layer of skin, tucked away just beneath the surface.

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONThe President, a PrecedentMatt Weatherbee

He was reading something. He was at the bottom of the paper, but he didn’t remember what was in the middle or at the top. They were important, these letters on paper. His job was a letters-on-paper kind of job so he guessed that made him important.

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONOfficer Henry WakeJoshua Hampel

Alice looked at Henry for one long moment before nodding, and when she did he could hear her teeth clicking against the barrel of the gun and he shivered at the sound. He closed his eyes for a second and forced himself to swallow. He opened his eyes and looked at Alice. “Do you know why you want to do this?”

Feb 5
Feb 5 POETRYExpensive LeotardsKristin Garth

What does it cost, sixteen years old, to fly?
On ground such price for sanctuary, sky.

Feb 5
Feb 5 POETRYThe Day After Independence DayMark Trechock

Free to speak and drink, they guzzled
and yelped until a downpour drove them
inside to keep their powder dry.

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONThis is a Love StoryMonica Boothe

There is always a battle between the beautiful and the cliché. If a beautiful thing is written a thousand times and again does it become less beautiful?

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONAn Appointment with the FamilyTom WardWriter of the Month

William followed Dr Poots downstairs into a dark room that smelled strongly of disinfectant, like an operating theatre or a caretaker’s closet. An electric light stuttered into life overhead then hummed along steadily.

Feb 5
Feb 5 FILMCaptain Canada's Movie RodeoFebruary 2018

Gabriel Ricard takes on the complicated legacy of Hattie McDaniel and the inescapable history of Hollywood racism in his latest Captain Canada column. Also, reviews of Paddington 2, and cult classics from Wim Wenders and Roger Moore.

Feb 5
Feb 5 ESSAYTen-Year-Old Strung from Her Underwear on a CrossShannon Hardwick

Running across the living room, heart pounding, I’d imagine if I was quick enough, I could outrun the Big Bad Wolf. He would duck behind the armoire and the Steinway. It was thrilling and terrifying. I was fast.

Feb 5
Feb 5 FICTIONThis Is What We've Waited ForSamuel Snoek-Brown

Little Dan squatted against the wall of the gondola and cried quietly into his folded arms. Elizabeth leaned against the rail and stared out at the sunrise just breaking the treetops. Somewhere out there, in the city, a soft boom clouded into the morning and a fist of smoke rose from the horizon. The balloon rose with it.

Feb 5
Feb 5 ARTHidden Treasures 2Seigar

Feb 5
Feb 5 COMICSMr. ButterchipsAlex Schumacher

Alex Schumacher

The little monkey takes on religious freedom rights in the latest installment of Alex Schumacher's Mr. Butterchips.