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Erin P. Gold

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Formerly known as Erin Pack or Erin Pack-Jordan!

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Remember When Fascism Was A Bad Thing? These Movies Do - Cinema Sugar

Remember When Fascism Was A Bad Thing? These Movies Do - Cinema Sugar

Let's take a closer look at some beloved films that are WHOOPS now apparently too radical for today's khaki-w…

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Where's the Tylenol? Analyzing Clark Griswold's Meltdown Speech in 'National Lampoon's Christmas ...

Where's the Tylenol? Analyzing Clark Griswold's Meltdown Speech in 'National Lampoon's Christmas ...

Griswold's unhinged yet somehow heroic yuletide meltdown soliloquy isn't just madness, but American Christmas…

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'The Muppet Christmas Carol' is the Greatest Literary Adaptation Ever Made - Cinema Sugar

'The Muppet Christmas Carol' is the Greatest Literary Adaptation Ever Made - Cinema Sugar

As a former English teacher, I can confidently declare The Muppet Christmas Carol is not just the best holida…

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What Your Favorite Horror Comedy Says About Society - Cinema Sugar

What Your Favorite Horror Comedy Says About Society - Cinema Sugar

Here are 11 horror-comedy classics that are more than just laughs and blood splatter-and prove society itself…

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Paul Thomas Anderson movies, ranked by how much they make you cry in the shower - Cinema Sugar

Paul Thomas Anderson movies, ranked by how much they make you cry in the shower - Cinema Sugar

Friends, if you haven't cried in the shower after a PTA film, do you even like cinema?

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Hear Me Out: 'High Fidelity' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Are the Same Movie - Cinema Sugar

Hear Me Out: 'High Fidelity' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Are the Same Movie - Cinema Sugar

Once upon a time in the year 2000, these two fantastic movies came out and accidentally explained 95% of the …

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‘Eight Men Out’ is An All Too Timeless Tale of Sliding Into Catastrophe

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By Erin P. Gold
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There’s a moment early on in John Sayles’ brilliant 1988 film Eight Men Out when you realize: The legendarily talented 1919 Chicago White Sox were brutally underpaid by their cheap boss. This doesn’t feel exclusive to 1919. Based on Eliot Asinof’s book of the same name, the film depicts the Black Sox Scandal in which eight White Sox players conspired with gamblers and mobsters to throw the 1919 World Series.
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Remember When Fascism Was A Bad Thing? These Movies Do — Cinema Sugar

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By Erin P. Gold
| heycinemasugar.com
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) Plot: German college student and real-life superhero Sophie Scholl resists Hitler, gets arrested for passing out literature, and stares fascists in the face with more courage than a dozen senators combined. Why is it terrorist propaganda: Youth activism? A moral compass?! Ridiculous. Sophie would’ve already been tased on campus today for “disturbing the peace” and dogpiled by bad-faith debate bros.
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Remember When Fascism Was A Bad Thing? These Movies Do

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By Erin P. Gold
| cinemasugar.com
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) Plot: German college student and real-life superhero Sophie Scholl resists Hitler, gets arrested for passing out literature, and stares fascists in the face with more courage than a dozen senators combined. Why is it terrorist propaganda: Youth activism? A moral compass?! Ridiculous. Sophie would’ve already been tased on campus today for “disturbing the peace” and dogpiled by bad-faith debate bros.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! As an elder millennial, I remember my parents' electric typewriter.

What's your favorite social network?

Reddit

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

Uncovering the hidden history of a high school at a Japanese-American Internment Camp