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Warning: Major spoilers ahead for No Time To DieThe No Time To Die signal the end of Daniel Craig's time as James Bond for one final adventure. The movie is the 25th official James Bond film and the 5th movie for Craig’s interpretation of the character over a 15 year period. Like every Bond movie to date, the new film features an elaborate and highly stylized opening sequence that foreshadows much of what's to follow. Just as with all its predecessors, No Time To Die's credits have a lot to unpack.Dating back to Bond’s cinematic debut in 1962’s Dr. No (where there was a flurry of multi-colored dots flashing on the...

Editing a newspaper is a bit like herding cats, but with a deadline. Here at Motif, where budgets are thin, our writers and artists are valiant and deserve praise. Every month they dip their brains into the world and distil their experiences into a few hundred words. Our goal is to inform, entertain and occasionally provoke. While we spend a fair amount of energy with our online media empire (website, podcast and video channel), our core is still the old-school printed page. photo by Berge Ara Zobian I love newspapers because they exist in physical form, unfiltered by some billionaire’s...

What we need is a habit of taking our minds out of what one is tempted to call “the domestic rag-bag” of perplexities, and giving it a good airing in something which keeps it “growing”… Is there, then, not need for more “Mother Culture”? “Mother Culture” Parents’ Review – Volume 3 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy...

Long before characters such as John Walker took inspiration from Captain America, Stan Lee's first superhero was a Cap pastiche named Destroyer. Though the character did enjoy a brief time in the spotlight of Marvel's early heroes, he quickly faded into obscurity. Still, his legacy as Lee's very first superhero has always piqued the interest of comic creators who grew up in Lee's shadow. The most radical departure came from Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, who turned Destroyer into an absolutely brutal hero.Created in 1941 by Stan Lee and Jack Binder for Mystic Comics #6, Destroyer is the secret identity of Kevin Marlow. Marlow was a...

Celestial Odyssey Pat McGrath Celestial Odyssey Mega MTHRSHP Eyeshadow PalettePat McGrath Celestial Odyssey Mega MTHRSHP Eyeshadow Palette ($78.00 for 0.684 oz.) is a new, limited edition eyeshadow palette for the holiday season. There are 18 shades–four matte eyeshadows and 14 shimmer eyeshadows–that include a few previously-released shades but the majority are new shades. The eyeshadows were pigmented, blendable, and easy to work with and had minimal fallout with nine to 10-hour wear. It felt like the quality I’d expect from the brand with very little to complain about. If the color story is up your alley, it’s a fantastic deal...