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Josh Matthews

Movie Lists

The Best Movies Ever (List)

Based on personal preference, technical excellence, meaningful stories, great images, and historical value, this list encompasses what I currently think the greatest movies ever are. This is a living list that will change as I do. Please pardon the thousands of omissions that are worthy…
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July 12, 2019
Movie Lists

Great Science-Fiction Movies and TV List

Based on my own preferences, this list nevertheless contains plenty of visionary, mind-blowing movies that you will like. For me, the weirder, the better, because "weird" to an ordinary person tends to mean that a science-fiction movie is doing its job--to provoke thought and spark…
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July 12, 2019
Book Lists

Italian Renaissance Reading List

Although the Italian Renaissance is one of the most important world-historical and cultural periods ever, it's quite difficult to penetrate for novices. I speak as one who, in order to learn anything about, had to do all of the reading and teaching to myself. The…
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July 11, 2019
Video Essays

Nebraska (2013) — A Great-Movie Essay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7Uwk1BF8U&feature=youtu.be (Below is a near-transcript of the essay read in the video above.) In the early twenty-first century, what is middle America, and what should you think about it?  So asks the 2013 movie Nebraska, one of the best American movies of the 21st century,…
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July 9, 2019