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Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience

Selda Tuncer

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Turkey's process of 'modernization' developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth...

A Good Life: Philosophy from Cradle to Grave

Mark Rowlands

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Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in...

Working with Mindfulness: Keeping Calm and Focused to Get the Job Done

Michael Sinclair and Josie Seydel

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'Working with Mindfulness is an engaging and practical guide to reducing stress, transcending...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The House (2017) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020 (Updated Sep 19, 2020)

The House (2017)

2017 | Comedy

5.7

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Not a better movie than 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘰, but by far a better analogy between crime-soaked gambling and the bloody baseball bat of capitalism - as unintentional as I'm sure the allusion is here. Given how much of a dead horse the target of whitebread suburbia is even well through twenty-five years ago now, I'll give this some freshness points in the way it portrays the quest for fair financial stability in lieu of absurdly-gouged education prices, big banks, etc. by the warping of the upper-middle-class into an entire demographic forced to confront their own morals when they're encouraged into private crime upon the abject failure of their own government by way of goofy dark comedy. Starts off like your routine bland improvy entry into the 'haha raunchy families' trend and progressively becomes more and more doused in blood, blunt trauma, property damage, and general chaos that throws moron policemen, corrupt officeholders, and the inherent violence of America's economic system into the fire in its wake. Plus it's brisk (for fucking once with this genre good Lord) and has a ton of laughs even though I believe it still seems generally uninterested in its own plot in addition to criminally underutilizing both Ferrell and Poehler's talents together as well. The bit with Nick Kroll at the end was fucking gut-bustingly hilarious.