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Ben Hatt
Sep 1, 202311 min read
A Time In Space
A Visit to Parque Nacional Perito Moreno in Eastern Santa Cruz Province, Argentina There’s a hotel on the road to nowhere: Two...
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Ben Hatt
Jan 9, 20234 min read
President Biden: Today’s standard bearer for the original progressive vision
NOTE: This Article was written for publication in the summer of 2021. President Biden has gone big. In the American Jobs Plan and the...
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Ben Hatt
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Senate Acquittal Would Mean More Division
NOTE: This piece was written for publication on Feb 2, 2 2021 When Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged the constitutionality of the...
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Ben Hatt
Apr 1, 20207 min read
Icarus: America's wings are melting
How America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic reveals cracks in the American Dream Icarus. It’s a story you may be familiar with. It...
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Ben Hatt
Sep 26, 201810 min read
The British Countryside Is Not Dead
Ben is a British writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has travelled extensively in Asia and South America. ---- Us British can be a...
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Ben Hatt
Aug 21, 201819 min read
The Trans-Siberian Railway: Pot-bellied leather singers and the deepest lake in the world
Ben is a British writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has travelled extensively in Asia and South America. ---- There’s a kick, a...
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Ben Hatt
Aug 17, 20187 min read
Dandong: A view into North Korea
Ben is a British writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has travelled extensively in Asia and South America. ---- It is 6:39am in...
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Ben Hatt
Jul 31, 20183 min read
A Hollywood Candy Fare
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again is a fanfare of chocolate and cake and a whole lot of cheese. There’s no doubting the appeal. At first bite...
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Ben Hatt
Jun 21, 20183 min read
True Crime and True Retribution
There’s a fleeting shot in American Animals where Spencer and Warren, the two protagonists, are watching movies as inspiration for their...
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Ben Hatt
Jun 14, 20184 min read
Simple is better: Morgan Neville takes a leaf out of his Subject's book with glorious effect.
“Simple is best” has been an age-old adage for us all, but rarely does a film take that message so sincerely to heart and the outcome...
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Ben Hatt
Jun 14, 20183 min read
That Donald Trump - Kim Jong-Un "Move Trailer" Video
We all have those devilish “what ifs,” fantasies and delusions that flutter in and out of the mind like butterflies in the stomach. For...
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Ben Hatt
Jun 8, 20183 min read
All Style And Little Substance
Elvis once put together a little ditty people like to call, “a little less conversation and a little more action.” The man knew how to...
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Ben Hatt
Jun 7, 20185 min read
The Mercurial Power of the Presidential Pardon
Presidential Pardons have a long and capricious history. Scooter Libby, the former Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, had his sentence...
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Ben Hatt
May 23, 20183 min read
It’s “Ryan Reynolds” Starring Deadpool, but what else are we expecting?
Deadpool 2 is filthy, smutty and vulgar; bawdy, barnyard and lewd; nigh on pornographic in its humour and explicit in its inglorious...
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Ben Hatt
May 22, 20184 min read
A Suffocating Slow-Burn Drama that Plods before it Shines
The phrase “may you live a long life” is repeated throughout the film, offering consolation at a time of pain and suffering. It is a...
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Ben Hatt
May 9, 20183 min read
Motherhood: The Struggle is Real
Plot-twists are sexy. They’re the damsel that comes late to the ball, the janitor-cum-genius that breaks the code, the unsuspecting...
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Ben Hatt
Apr 29, 20184 min read
Finding the Middle Ground
Voltaire was a badass. He was an unfettered forward-thinker, an enlightened activist, a satirical polemicist. In many ways he was a 21st...
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Ben Hatt
Apr 27, 20183 min read
With No Sound There Is Still Plenty Of Fury
HP Lovecraft, one of the oft-forgotten godfathers of horror fiction, argued “it is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated...
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Ben Hatt
Apr 18, 20183 min read
A Change In Tune For The High-School Rom-Com, But A Strong Lead Lacks Support.
There’s a moment when Chris Evans’ Jack Tyler is challenged to take Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh) to prom in the satirical teen comedy Not...
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Ben Hatt
Apr 15, 20183 min read
The Ticking Clock of War
Saul Dibb’s Journey’s End is a cinematic reinvention of the 1928 play by R.C. Sheriff. Set in the trenches in 1918 during the height of...
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