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Increasingly, craft beer brewers and patrons have turned toward lagers – pale, dark, Pilsners, Helles, bocks – as the breezy de facto alternative to the God Emperor of the craft industry, the IPA. People want…
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Introducing Bespoke Post, a free monthly membership club delivering curated boxes featuring exclusive finds from unique brands and small businesses. Explore a range of products, from outdoor gear to stylish clothing, tailored to your preferences for a personalized adventure each month. Proudly supporting artisans, 90% of the items are sourced from small businesses like Barebones and BucknBear Knives. Enjoy flexibility with no charges for box preview, swaps, or skips, and benefit from free shipping and easy returns. Valued at $70, each box costs only $49 for members, offering a thoughtful and affordable holiday shopping experience.…
The 5 Horror Movies You Should See After Watching ‘Evil Dead Rise’
So you’ve just gotten out of the theater after seeing Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, and you’re in need of both a fresh pair of drawers and a pick-me-up tonic to recover from the experience…
The 9 Hops That Every IPA Lover Should Know
You don’t have to be a scientist or a horticulturalist or a brewer to appreciate beer. You just have to have a lively palate and a sense of adventure. You don’t need an advanced degree…
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If You Liked ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ You Need To Watch Michelle Yeoh’s Other Movies
Awards hype is rarely worth your time and bother. Even when pundits and PR machines pick the right nominees, they’re still wrong for treating them like race horses. For the 2022-23 season, the awards committees…
The Best Classic Movies on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now
Pulp Fiction. The Dark Knight. Schindler’s List. Each of these films enjoy a spot in film’s pantheon, and qualify as modern classics. This will inevitably make more than a few folks who grew up in…
New England Is Home To Some of the Country’s Best Beer. These Were the 5 Best New Beers of 2022
Six states make up New England, but as those states all itty bitty, you’d be forgiven for putting the region on the small end of the scale. It’s not, however, a small region in terms…
Every 1980s Genre Movie Fan Should Own the ‘Highlander’ 4K Release
Over the last few decades, Highlander, Russell Mulcahy’s 1986 fantasy cult movie, has received more home video releases than Connor MacCleod has taken heads from immortals in sword fights. But Lionsgate’s recent 4K update, now…
Why You Should Own a Blu-ray Collection (Really)
Last year, the Motion Picture Association tallied the number of consumers worldwide with subscriptions to streaming services as of 2020. The final count stopped at a cool 1.1 billion. That, to use a brainy technical…
Every Millennial Horror Geek Should Own the ‘Army of Darkness’ Shout! Factory 4K Release
The most important detail anyone needs to know about Shout! Factory’s 4K steelbook treatment of Sam Raimi’s seminal 1992 horror-comedy masterpiece Army of Darkness is this: It’s the best home video release the movie has…
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The 10 Best Bad Movies On Netflix
You can learn a lot from watching a bad movie. Taking a note from The Princeton Review, watching a bad movie instructs you what not to do if you want to make a good movie.…
20 Martial Arts Movies Every Guy Should See
Few things are as enjoyable and adrenalizing as martial arts films, whatever their make and model. Sometimes, plot is a necessity for stringing together cool fights. Sometimes, it’s as much of a pleasure as the…
The Best Movies Based On Books
“The book is always better than the movie,” goes the crusty old precept about book-to-movie adaptations. In a certain percentage of cases, this may be true. In others, it may not. For the most part,…