Sometimes it’s hard to believe how far America has come in the past hundred and fifty years or so. Near the end of Lincoln, the Congress goes into riot mode, not when it’s suggest that slaves should be freed, but when it’s suggested that women and former slaves should be given the right to vote. They didn’t like the idea of interracial marriage, either. The bulk of Lincoln deals with whether or not the President will be able to get enough votes to pass the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolishing slavery. There is a lot of wheeling and dealing, a…
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Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln is an American icon who has fallen victim to the recent obsession with taking classic books and dropping zombies, werewolves, vampires, and other such silliness into them. And while I like titles like Mr. Darcy, Vampyre and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I haven’t actually read many books in this sub-genre. So I walked into Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter with very low expectations and a maybe a bit of dread. Turns out that this is a standard issue Hollywood film, lots of special effects, good sets and costumes, a number of familiar faces, and a fairly straightforward story. We…