Mr. Richard K. Weems

The Twitter extension of Mr. Richard K. Weems at the Bergen County Academies

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#ThePurgeTV, ep.3 - There is the possibility that this series started with an intentionally standard view of #ThePurge and build up from there, as using it now to settle #officepolitics and perhaps as a call to protect the innocent might offer hope in watching further.

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#IAmEvidence, the devastating #Documentary about the THOUSANDS of untested #rape kits in police precincts across the country, is a great reminder of #MAGA bullshit, the ‘Good Ol Days’ where when the #abuse of #POC and #women was not worth #Patriarchy’s time. #BlackLivesMatter

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For an insightful, thorough and unforgettable discussion on @Rodriguez’s #TheFaculty, check out the latest episode of the @FacultyofHorror podcast. #HorrorMovies #ScienceFiction #highschoolsucks

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#2001ASpaceOdyssey more than holds up on its #goldenanniversary not just for its technical vision but because it still asks about the #identity we’re still searching for and because #HAL9000 is still the creepiest antagonist EVER. #StanleyKubrick #SciFanSat #scifi #AI #NASA

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#DjangoUnchained may be faulted for overextending its own plot, but this is a common #QuentinTarantino fault, therefore negligible, and its unflinching depictions of #slavery and #racism and general sense of #SocialJustice override all that #nitpicking. #western #JamieFoxx #Roots

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This actually could have been quite good, like #BlairWitch meets #SuicideClub meets #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer, but as inventive as the #socialmedia structuring of the movie is, the killings themselves are quite dull and frankly kinda stupid. #HorrorMovies #foundfootage #Facebook

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#ThePurgeTV plods in its first two episodes, hopefully trying to set up deeper challenges to come, but right now showing that the concept is tired, as #officepolitics against the backdrop of the Purge is far more interesting than (yet more) masked killers. #wildwest #lawlessness

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#ALateQuartet depicts a #stringquartet being forced apart by #illness, and while the character arcs get #melodramatic and arrive at obvious conclusions, this was a rare moment of #ChristopherWalken as the moral center, which he CAN do. #PhilipSeymourHoffman #CatherineKeener

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While most of the #XMen movies convey thoughtful metaphors of #identity, #destiny and such, #Apocalypse has little to say except that it’s good to have #friends and #stalking and stealing a woman’s memories are okay as long as you feel bad afterwards. #MeToomvmt #MCU #bryansinger

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The #XFiles episode on the #JerseyDevil May beg the question as to who is #civilized and who is #barbaric, but seriously, this is #NewJersey envisioned by #Canadians who’ve never been there (cliffs?!?), and it’s called the #Jersey DEVIL, not #Neanderthal! #scifi #FactsMatter

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While the movies have been spotty at best with developing #classissues, the opening episode of #ThePurge limited series is still ambiguous about whether it will deepen #commentary (the way the commercials do) or anthologize a bunch of plots. #USANetwork #HungerGames #HorrorMovies

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The subtext of #Orphan’s horror is, at first, the #binary existences among #family, until some execs wanted a #FatalAttraction ending, and a #Seven-ripoff title sequence, but when the hell does @VeraFarmiga gets her props as #royalty among #HorrorMovies? #PeterSarsgaard

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#DemonKnight is #TalesFromTheCrypt’s better outing, using the classic format of sundry characters trapped by #evil in a house together to its advantage with fun performances by #BillyZane, #JadaPinkettSmith and #WilliamSadler, making me lament #Bordello of #blood. #HorrorMovies

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#AlexandraWest makes a great case that #Trauma and #ptsd are the true subjects to this, and though they’re undermined by a lot of #horrormovie formula, upgrading #JamieLeeCurtis’s status as the #finalgirl was a great move for #Halloween...before #RobZombie’s disasters struck.

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Not only is this #keanureeves’s finest acting (okay, he just had to pretend his name was Ted), but what many imitators miss is how #goodintention-ed the titular characters are, making for a far more imaginative plotline than the #hokey jerk-who-has-a-#bullshit-#changeofheart crap

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#WhaleRider is a great reminder how #Tradition must #Evolve and #adapt to survive, as a #Maori girl is refused leadership (because #Patriarchy), for tradition lives in its essence, not the details—something we’re clearly forgetting today. #NewZealand #womeninhollywood #Feminism

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#TheH8fulEight has some great performances, as #QuentinTarantino is wont to elicit, but the plot is strained, and the issues of #racism are crowbarred in rather than organic, as opposed to #DjangoUnchained, so maybe the 70mm technology took too much precedent. #SamuelLJackson

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#IHeartHuckabees is a sometimes unruly #mishmash of #existentialist #angst that #DavidORussell better channeled in #SilverLiningsPlaybook, though these two #films have so far proven the height of his output. #LilyTomlin #DustinHoffman #NaomiWatts #environmental #MarkWahlberg

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#Baskin, this #Turkish #horrormovie about shifty cops on a mysterious call, is #DonnieDarko meets #SilentHill, shifting furiously into a plethora of horrific imagery that may make you forget you don't know what the fuck is going on...for a while. #HorrorMovies #foreignfilm

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Watching #TheIntern is like watching crusty #MTV execs discussing what’s #hip—except that this movie makes #stereotype out of young AND old, with #RobertDeNiro left making goofy faces and #POC nowhere to be seen. #DiversityIsStrength #BlackLivesMatter #AnneHathaway #diversity