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7) Social Media: James Gunn

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In the modern age of internet and social media, we as a society have hit a crossroads when it comes to its use and when to take it seriously or to dismiss it entirely. Social media is used as a means to get everyone as connected as possible. Whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, all are used to present an idea of yourself to people you may or may not know. Because of this, social media has been identified as something that must be done carefully because it can potentially make or break not only your ability to market yourself to potential employers but also to your entire friends and family. In the Summer of 2018, one of my favorite directors, James Gunn, was fired off of the film franchise Guardians of the Galaxy for tweets that had been rediscovered from his past after getting in a political argument with a Republican journalist (Gunn tends to lean left as his social media has come to prove.) After James Gunn's firing, social medias went crazy. For one,

6) Critiquing a Media Critic: Collider Live

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Collider Live is a podcast/morning radio-esqe show run by film entertainment news YouTube channel Collider Video .  The show is run by Kristian Harloff of the former Schmoes Know and it's a mixture of movie news and Howard Stern type shenanigans. The show is a spiritual "Phase 7" of the now done Schmoes Know Movie Show (which ran for 6 previous "Phases" every time the show switched production houses) for everyone from the show has switched over to Collider, re-purposing the show to Collider Live. Collider Live is meant to have a laid back "Buddies in the bar talking Star Wars" type vibe. The show is pretty low tech in actuality (4 to 5 adults sitting in a windowless closet that sometimes looks like it smells a little) but has a lot of production value for something that is meant to seem so casual. The hosts, while each media/film critics, aren't obligated to talk about film on this particular show on the channel. They more talk about their

5) Movies: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Let me just start off by saying that I know I already did this movie for the music review, but the film has just won an Oscar for Best Animated AND I recently rewatched it, and I would literally think less of myself if I didn't write about this movie. Spider-Man has always been the most meaningful superhero to me since as long as I could remember. Literally, besides a drink being dropped on me as a child, my first memories are at the theater watching the OG Spider-Man film back in 2002. What I love most about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse are the main themes of the movie, the most prominent being that literally ANYONE could be Spider-Man. These ideas weren't new, necessarily, but the fact that groups of people put so much effort into a film to inceptionize to children and adults alike that everyone was capable of putting on the mask, it is honestly inspiring. Stan Lee talked about one of his favorite aspects of Spider-Man being the fact that he has a full body su