Seven years after The Last of Us was released by Naughty Dog, fans could hardly contain their collective excitement when Part II came out in J…
The genre of noir films and the historical drama mystery capers which reside within it are extensive and well documented.
Season 1 of the podcast “In the Dark” by APM Reports covers the case of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling. The case of the kidnapping and disappear…
Tom Hardy has managed to become one of the most well-known actors working today, and he deserves every bit of praise and recognition he is receiving.
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United States Constitution (Amendment I): “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercis…
We often talk about hot streaks when referencing athletes in professional sports, but when it comes to Steven Spielberg in the 1990s to the ea…
Undoubtedly, the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks and many others by the police during the spring and summer of 2020 h…
On August 18, it will have been a century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which declares that the right to v…
In 2002’s “Insomnia,” we were gifted an unlikely but exquisite screen pairing of Robin Williams and Al Pacino in what is a classic complex rel…
You may be able to tell at this point, but I have a penchant for loving retro-styled places. The Phoenix Pharmacy, located at 418 S Gay St, Kn…
We live in a world in which producers are competing for consumers’ attention. Since the advent of the internet, this form of marketing was ine…
The news used to be just that, the news. It offered to the world illustrations of major events, movements and ideologies in the most impartial…
I never like making the title of one of my columns the title of a film as I feel it is too plain and easy to have the title of the film as you…
When I was deciding what I wanted my first piece in The Daily Beacon to be, I pondered many different topics within the criminal justice syste…
It seems like there is one thing that has always been able to stoke argument and discourse among friends, family and even strangers. That is ……
The United States is the land of statues. We’ve got plenty of them. But as I type this, we don’t have as many as we once did. Some applaud tha…
There are some films that require you to live and grow up a little more before you can watch them and have them fully resonate with you.
On Monday, June 29, the Supreme Court struck down a recent Louisiana law that could have left the state with one abortion clinic. This ruling …
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In what premiered on my tenth birthday in 2009, “Up” went on to tell a wild and original tale of love, adventure, role models and how family i…
While I’m not usually a bar person, there is something to be said about the downtown Knoxville specialty breweries and bars. A certain air of …
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In the past year, Joaquin Phoenix has played the Joker, won an Oscar for his performance, and in the process of playing an acclaimed and belov…
Whimsical 1996 Mike Nichols film, “The Birdcage,” brings a lively story to screen with inspired performances from Robin Williams, Nathan Lane …
As a now 21-year-old college student, eating is always on my mind. That being said, convenience and affordability also are pretty important to…
In 1998’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” crazed drug-fueled antics mixed with surrealist observations into what the American dream has beco…
Frank Capra offers up a hefty helping of heart in his 1946 classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Although Capra was well known for many of his film…
Filmmaker Jon Favreau swings for the fences in 2014’s “Chef” and comes away with a grand slam in what is an inventive and impassioned approach…
The music is grandiose, and the set pieces are extravagant in the 2006 summer blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” It is …
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It is better to leave this world with a bang than with a whimper. That is the ideology and inherent truth General George Patton holds onto thr…
If the quarantine for COVID-19 has revealed anything, it is that human impact on the environment is still at an all-time high. The empty roads…
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It has been 40 days. 40 days since the world of sports was turned upside down. On the 11th of March, the NBA shocked the world by suspending t…
I’m a senior now, which means I’m kind of old. Old enough to remember the strip before it was renovated, old enough to remember the brief (and…
Much like Quint’s stubborn vessel, the Orca, the characters of 1975’s classic film “Jaws” press on in their hunt for a man-eating great white …
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As we have seen during the current COVID-19 pandemic and other instances of disaster, the United States of America’s government and leadership…
Another week of quarantine calls for another week of binge-watching. This week I binged Buzzfeed Unsolved videos and stumbled across the unsol…
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On Feb. 29, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence tweeted a notorious photo of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce. This photo was scrutinized for…
The stakes are high for a pair of bank robbing brothers in 2016’s “Hell or High Water,” who fight the clock to save their childhood home from …
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Let me start off by saying that it’s been an absolute blast writing this column for the past two years. It’s been quite the adventure trying m…
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I sat down the other day with my friends to watch this comedy I had heard about. I knew that it was a crazy project that took 11 years to film…
All throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people have been searching for good news. Websites, YouTube channels and TV shows have been created s…
When the Buffalo Bills selected Josh Allen in the first round of the 2018 draft, they expected him to be the leader of the franchise for the n…
Woody Allen’s 2011 film “Midnight in Paris” is what all films should aspire to be. It captures the magic, creativity and heart so many movies …
Recently there has been a large push for people to stay in their homes as much as possible so that the spread of COVID-19 will decrease, which…
Think of the worst superhero possible. A useless power, a complete lack of design cohesion and the personality of a sheet of plywood. No matte…
When the King of Denmark announced a major prize for the discovery of comets by telescope, it was seemingly inconceivable that the winner be a woman.
As COVID-19 continues to keep me cooped up inside, I have found myself binge watching an unhealthy number of documentaries. My most recent bin…
What does it mean to be patriotic in modern wars? How are we to justify our involvement and actions when there doesn’t appear to be a clear mo…
During this uncertain time in our country, abortion opponents are not wasting a single minute in taking advantage of the current political cli…
