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‘A Haunted House’ takes aim at an easy target, shoots itself in the foot

A Haunted House Directed by Michael Tides Written by Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez USA, 2013 Opens Jan. 25 in Toronto Have you ever opened up a history textbook and found that every single image of Josef Stalin was defaced with some sort of phallic or scatological graffiti? Or that his pictures were accompanied by …

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(Bitter) Sweet Freedom: New media props up cheap hits, but at what cost?

The Roman Empire was brutal, repressive, tyrannical, corrupt, morally bankrupt…  Well, nothing’s perfect, right?  After all, the Empire’s collapse after 700 years didn’t bring freedom or reformation, but the Dark Ages – disease, ignorance, witch trials, book burnings, illiteracy, and all that other bad stuff which made the Dark Ages so damned dark. It’s like …

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