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Sherlock Holmes, Private I

Film has the capacity to reveal, entertain, and question certain practices. Long has the battle been raged between religion and science, one fighting for centuries-old theological beliefs, the other for mathematical and formulaic answers to man’s existence. And long has the battle between religion and science been discussed amongst scholars, and common folk. But it was in film that I came across an unexpected plot that drew uncanny parallels to this very battle. Sherlock Holmes, Detective ...

(500) Days of Autumn

I told a friend I'd write this post a long time ago. I guess it took a few days off from work, no energy, a stomach flu, and a sudden inspiration to write to get this one off the ground. It's probably a combination of all of the above. That, and my summer's coming to an end. (500) Days of Summer. It's the story of a Los Angeles we love to hate. It's the story of a job we despise. It's the story of a girl we love. But this is not a love story. It is not the story of boy meets girl, even though, ...