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The Best Book-to-Movie Adaptation: Catching Fire
There was a brief time where all movie studios were pumping out book-to-movie adaptations in order to create the next box office smash. Now, the concept of a book being turned into a movie is not groundbreaking by any means. However, in the early 2010s, it seemed that all anyone wanted to do was create […]
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Vaccines Gave Me Autism and the Pandemic Made Me Trans
I’ll be the first to say it; the childhood-vaccination-to-autism pipeline is old news. Clearly a scientific phenomenon this well-documented has no further need for discussion or deliberation. Take it from me, a fully immunized and fully autistic person. No matter what your peers, professors, and/or medical professionals tell you, there is no such thing as […]
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Top Ten Romantic Spots on Campus
In May, flowers bloom and rivers flow. The songbirds chirp away, and petals drift on the wind as the doe have their fawns and the sunsets paint the skies. An inherent romanticism permeates through the air – and I put it there, so that all of you at UTD would read my sweet new list […]
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The Eternal Struggle of the Mature Cartoon
Across the wide expanses of streaming services, obsolete cable, and online piracy exists a vast universe of TV, with countless types of genres and stories. Out of the bunch, however, few have struggled as much as the mature cartoon. Now, when I say “mature cartoon”, what most people imagine are shows like South Park or […]
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National Champions: Players On Strike!
Spoilers: There's no football.
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AMP Reviews Jupiter’s Legacy
Jupiter’s Legacy is Netflix’s latest foray into the superhero genre. Based on a comic of the same name created by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, it features an engaging plot full of interpersonal drama, mystery, and good old-fashioned superhero fights. And while the series features almost exclusively super powered characters, their struggles are all too […]
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AMP Watches: Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Folks, it’s been a rough January. We really just needed something light-heartedly bad to lift our spirits. That’s why we decided to watch one of the members of our editorial board’s favorite movies, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Fear not though, dear reader, because whilst Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed may be the apex of […]
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DJ Showcase
Name of host: John Lawler Name of show: Psych! Time: Fridays 3pm-6pm How would you describe your show to someone who has never listened? [It’s] all over the place. I don’t like to stick to one genre; I don’t like to stick to one time period either. I like to jump around, I like to […]
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Media in the Time of COVID-19
When channel surfing on major networks nowadays, you’ll see that current seasons of prime time television have acknowledged the overgrown elephant in every room: we are all living in the midst of a global pandemic. The networks flood our eyes with The Conners, Superstore, essentially any show written by Shonda Rhimes… yet, instead of providing […]
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Reproductive Coercion
It’s happened to all of us. We’ve all driven down a rural, Texas highway and passed a billboard that reads: “Pregnant? Need help? Give us a call.” Advertisements like that belong to crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), non-profit organizations that focus on persuading pregnant people to not have abortions. Such centers have mastered the art of […]
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Ticket Stubs
Letterkenny Letterkenny is a tv show about a rural town in Canada. The beauty of Letterkenny is in its dry humor and quick wit. The show clips along at a fast pace with the actors barely leaving time for you to process the first joke before they move on to the second joke. With a […]
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Whooshing Red
White Insurrection, an American Institution
It’s November 10th, 1898. The office of an opposition newspaper is burned to the ground. The newly-elected government is forced to resign at gunpoint. Prominent dissenters are put on a kill list and detained throughout the city. This is just the beginning of the repression. The city is Wilmington, North Carolina. The putschists are armed […]