The Corner Penthouse

On Saturday June 20, 2020, I bought an open-box unused Clickfree Plus C2 2-Terabyte USB 3.0 external portable hard drive at a yard sale for the whopping sum of $2.00. (The drive has a model number of CA3C20-2CBK9-F2S and a UPC number of 817048015947, and based on the copyright date on the bottom of the box, it was manufactured in 2014 by Storage Appliance Corporation.) I had never heard of the Clickfree brand before, but I could not pass up buying a 2TB hard drive for two bucks. The box heavily promoted the product's easy automatic backup feature, but I figured that was just some software on the drive that I could easily delete. How wrong I was...

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The Hunt (2020) is a film that just can't catch a break. Originally slated for a September 27, 2019 release, the film was pushed back to March 13, 2020 in the wake of a spate of mass shootings that shook the nation. Then the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March, severely limiting its theatrical run. The film finally got its proper physical disc home video release on June 9th, but that was in the shadow of police brutality that occurred just three weeks earlier. Well, after all of the controversy and bad luck surrounding this film, is it any good? Read on to find out...

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If there's an invisible man sleeping in your bed, who are you going to call? Not the Ghostbusters, this time.

The Invisible Man (2020) is a re-imagining of the 1933 Universal classic monster movie, based on the 1897 novel by H.G. Wells (read online), though no mention is ever made of Wells in the film's credits or bonus features. Does it fare better than most remakes and re-imaginings? Read on to find out...

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We Summon the Darkness (2019) is a slasher film that takes place in Indiana in 1988. Read on to find out more...

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Gretel & Hansel (2020) is the latest adaptation of Hansel & Gretel, the German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales (read online). This film is not to be confused with Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, a 2013 film starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. Read on to find out more about Gretel & Hansel...

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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020) is the latest in the DC Cinematic Universe. Read on to find out more...

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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) is the latest video game-to-movie adaptation. Is it any good? Read on to find out...

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This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who believes that buyers can do no wrong. This is proven by the fact that sellers can't leave negative feedback for buyers. As any long-time eBay seller can attest to, there are PLENTY of bad buyers on eBay. I will do my best to inform the public about the bad buyers that cross my path, so other sellers can add them to their block list and avoid them, as I wish I could. The bad buyer I will be writing about today is: Ken Johnson, operating under the eBay ID: chicagochristmas

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Blumhouse's Fantasy Island (2020) is a theatrical adaptation of the 1977-1984 television series. Read on to find out more...

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Back in 2006, two television series premiered on NBC that offered a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy television show modeled after Saturday Night Live. One lasted for a mere season, and the other went onto a long seven season run. One was Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and the other was Tina Fey's 30 Rock. Guess which one was which.

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