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An eye-opening documentary into the failure of public school system that doesn't quite get a passing grade. The scapegoat of "race" allows most of the bumbling, crumbling, half-century-old Federal Department of Education to skate by on their many failures which led to an emphasis on lowering standards and retaining mediocre educators rather than improving education.

Brilliant prequel that any action fan will enjoy and any history buff with a modicum of tolerance for stretching the truth will appreciate.

Ranked #2 in IMDb's "Top 100 Movies That Aged Like Milk Left Three Weeks In A Miami Gym Bag", just behind 'An Inconvenient Truth' (2006).

Classic Christmas flick that expands upon Burl Ives' most famous holiday cover song. After the titular reindeer is bullied into self-imposed exile with an elf who's quit his manufacturing job, the pair meet up with the only mortal human being in the film; a courageous, gun-toting entrepreneur on the hunt for precious metals in the frozen North. The trio wander the Arctic, stalked by a giant, flesh-eating ape-creature, all the while learning the world is full of sentient creatures who are genuinely useless and that merely possessing an odd quirk doesn't qualify the reindeer and elf for special considerations. Lessons learned, the team ventures back home to face the ravenous monkey-beast which now threatens the loved ones Rudolph had abandoned. A must-watch for the kids.

Less-than-deft attempt to revise history and make Augusto Pinochet the evil incarnate the modern left insists him to be. Lenin ordered the murder of men, women, and children to steal their property. Stalin robbed banks and slaughtered innocents to do the same. But Pinochet, apparently, committed a far greater sin when he dared to consider the former to be monsters.

A truly ironic feature, blissfully unaware that its thinly-veiled message of "listen to the science" is dense with industry players who prefer political science over actual science. The cruelest joke is the moral of the flick (which adheres better to those pointing their fingers), as the same storytellers associated with the movie publicly condemn both private and public spending on space travel, which would be wholly necessary to effectively address the looming threat in the film.