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Let’s Talk About The Ending of Dirty Dancing

Posted on March 7, 2022August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

So I’m working on a larger idea of how the 80’s film repurposed Black-created music from the 60’s, to the benefit of (who else) White

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, MVP to MediumTagged baby in a corner, dirty dancing, jennifer grey, Johnny castle, patrick swayze, pop culture4 Comments on Let’s Talk About The Ending of Dirty Dancing

What The Strongest Conceits in Movie History Taught Me About My Love of Making Lists

Posted on June 15, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

And Why Horror Has So Many Sub-Genres Colin Farrell is a publicist cheating on his wife: just an all-around gross sentence and also the opening

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to Medium, Pop Culture DiaryTagged 30 days of night, arachnophobia, assault on precinct 13, conceits, do the right thing, kung fu panda, listicle, nick of time, nightmare on elm street, panic room, phone booth, speed, the raid 2, the silence of the lambs, the sixth sense, the taking of pelham one two three1 Comment on What The Strongest Conceits in Movie History Taught Me About My Love of Making Lists

Sex and the City vs The Devil Wears Prada: A Tale of Two Soundtracks

Posted on May 18, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

One City, Two Soundtracks, Two Very Different Results As a white guy who legally became an adult in the 2000s – but whose emotional readiness

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged anne hathaway, david bowie, meryl streep, sex and the city, sjp, the devil wears prada1 Comment on Sex and the City vs The Devil Wears Prada: A Tale of Two Soundtracks

The Surprising Working Class Consciousness of Dumb & Dumber

Posted on April 26, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

In the opening scene of 1994’s Dumb & Dumber a limo driver pretends to be an in-demand lecturer in the rarefied air of medical academia,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged dumb and dumber, farrelly brothers, jeff daniels, jim carrey4 Comments on The Surprising Working Class Consciousness of Dumb & Dumber

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Snowtown, and Muck-Duck: How Groupthink Is Portrayed in Pop Culture

Posted on April 5, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Dee and Dennis are, to quote a problematic R&B superstar, trapped in a closet. “We’ve got to get out of here Dennis, we need a

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged cultural commentary, groupthink, it's always sunny in philadelphia, muckduck, thinkpiece1 Comment on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Snowtown, and Muck-Duck: How Groupthink Is Portrayed in Pop Culture

7 Indie Rock Lyrics About Psychological Theories

Posted on March 29, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

1. “Folding John Wayne’s t-shirt, when the swing set hit his head” Song: “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” Artist: Sufjan Stevens Album: Illinois Year: 2005 Psychological

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Listicle, MVP to MediumTagged addiction, cultural commentary, dad rock, david wax museum, fruit bats, indie rock, john wayne gacy, listicle, motopony, nathaniel rateliff, phoebe bridgers, psychology, rumination, sufjan stevens, Tegan & Sara, therapy8 Comments on 7 Indie Rock Lyrics About Psychological Theories

The Danger In Thinking White People Have No Culture

Posted on March 23, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

(Spoiler: It Is Not The Fact That It Upsets White People) Per KnowYourMeme, a 2013 Tumblr post started the meme, “White People Have No Culture”.

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged critique, cultural commentary, white culture, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness

How Gen Z Not Understanding The Matrix Taught Me To Appreciate Modern Art

Posted on January 26, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Or, How The Wachowskis Taught Me To Stop Worrying and Love Red, Blue and Yellow III. A serial art-attacker, that’s what we’re dealing with. Or,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged art criticism, cultural commentary, pop art, pop culture, the matrix, warhol1 Comment on How Gen Z Not Understanding The Matrix Taught Me To Appreciate Modern Art

Ranking Game Shows By Their Contestants

Posted on January 5, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

The Bottom De La Creme: Let’s Make A Deal Oh the sweet sorrow of “Let’s Make a Deal”: one of the shows that along side

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How Hollywood’s Biggest Leading Men Got Their Jobs By Killing People

Posted on December 1, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

On screen, of course There are two large media empires built on the idea that Hollywood is liberal: Hollywood itself, and the ever expanding, ever

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged action movies, bruce willis, chris pratt, christian bale, cultural commentary, leonardo dicaprio, liam neeson, matt damon, pop culture analysis, the rock, think piece, tom cruise, will smith2 Comments on How Hollywood’s Biggest Leading Men Got Their Jobs By Killing People
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