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by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading All I Want is the Truth, Just Gimme the Truth…and Some Eggs Benedict
Hearts Beat Loud is about a father (Frank) who runs a failing record store and decides that he wants to start a band with his daughter (Sam) who is about … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: Hearts Beat Loud
by dale rappaneau in honor of a life well lived, the angels hired him to be the patron saint of sexual misconduct, entrusting him with a little desk near … Continue Reading in his image
by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading Dear Hasbro
Michaela Zelie
“I tried to find out once and it burned holes into me bigger than the ones I was attempting to starve.”
As a 90’s kid growing up in rural Maine with no satellite or cable television (there still aren’t any options for cable out where I live), PBS was a … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Kristin LaFollette
“I jump from a concrete
pillar, the camera sitting
heavy against your watery
chest, the lens cap still on;”
by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading But I’ve Seen it All in a Small Town
Adrift is a true story that focuses on a young woman (Tami Oldham) who survives for 41 days with about a two weeks’ supply of food, after the sailboat she … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: Adrift
by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading The Castle, Flowers, and Hannah in the Attic
The film American Animals is as much fun to watch as it is surprising to learn that it is a true story about four college students (Spencer Reinhard, Warren … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: American Animals
by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading This is How We Spell Success: An Ode to Writers
For the past two decades, the horror genre has been mostly throwing out hollow, lifeless films that play on the most basic of fears while producing no memorable … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: Hereditary
Hannah Calkin
“From my perch so Once I climbed the vines
They caught my hair And ripped a strand”
by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading In the Beginning There Was Confusion
Jeffery Higgs
How much fish can a river hold? How many could it expel? With their dull gray pallor, frozen unseeing eyes and shredded spider web fins, they covered the entire shoreline. It was impossible to set down a foot without crushing innards that squirted out a putrid odor of death.