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Graduating with an Arts Degree

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"Is an arts degree useless?"                Pretty much.  I seem to see this question asked a lot, either to me personally or online and I always see a magnitude of answers, some who say its very useful and informative, but mostly I see 'lol of course its useless.' I kind of stand in the middle, I cant talk for all arts, but I have a Bachelors Degree in Film Production, and personally, I really enjoyed it. Would I opt into it again if I got to turn back time 4 years knowing what I know now? Probably not, but do I regret going? Not one bit.  I believe all art degrees are useless, the piece of paper does not mean anything to a fellow creative, if two people went to the owner of 'insert art related company here', one having a degree in that field, and one who had worked the last 3 years in the field, they would pick the person with 3 years experience, they do not care, for that piece of paper, without experience behind you. I took this in ...

The Old Guard, overcoming an Old-School Industry. (Review)

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Netflix released their most recent exclusive film The Old Guard a few weeks ago, whilst getting mixed reviews, including only 2 stars from 'The Guardians' Peter Bradshaw who called it a "dull film" its been somewhat popular with us average movie consumers. It's actual audience seemed to enjoy it, with an 8/10 on IMDB. In many ways this film has looked at how the film industry has been ran for decades and turned it on its head, from having mostly female led departments and the post production team being 85% female to shooting almost completely handheld, this film, this team have said f!ck the system and worked their own way to create this action fantasy. Helmed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, known most recently for ' Silver & Black ', The Old Guard follows Andy (Charlize Theron), an immortal in charge of a team of mercenary immortals including their newest recruit Sebastian (Matthias Schoenaerts) and the lovers  Nicky and Joe (Luca Marinelli) and...