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Big or small, everybody's got a role to play. Any sport has legendary players, and basketball is no different. From Jerry West to Nikola Jokic, there have been numerous players - past and present - who have taken the game of basketball to the next level. But a teams' success depends not only on its stars, but on its reserve players - 'role-players' in basketball. Robert Horry is one such role-player. Despite only averaging 7 points-per-game over the course of his 17-year NBA career, Horry, AKA 'Big Shot Rob' established himself as a high-pressure performer. Take Game 4 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals for example. The Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Sacramento Kings. The first team to win 4 games would make it to the NBA Finals, and the Kings had already won 2 out of the previous 3 games. There were only 11.8 seconds left and the Kings were in the lead, 99-97.  Looking for a chance to tie the game, Kobe Bryant attempted to make a basket, but missed. As players s

Let them fight...together. So a new Lizard and Monke collab came to theatres. Being the MonsterVerse aficionado that I am, I went to see it. [OBLIGATORY SPOILER WARNING] Godzilla x Kong was pretty much what you'd expect from a typical monster movie; it was quite literally a block-buster (the collateral damage...goodness me).  One of the first scenes involves Godzilla battling a gigantic spider in Rome (I hope the Vatican was OK afterwards), then proceeding to take a nap in the Colosseum after his victory over the titanic arachnid. The Monster-Verse is leaning into the sheer ridiculousness of its premise, and I'm here for it. Godzilla x Kong  was like a 2-hour 'Ancient Aliens' episode. Over the first half of the movie, a series of strange seismic shocks are emanating from Hollow Earth (the subterranean world where Kong now lives) and Jia (the Iwi girl from Godzilla Vs. Kong) is having strange visions related to the shocks. Later on, we learn that there's an ancient s

 Revisiting Mel Gibson's biblical epic. As Easter is here, our minds are apt to turn to chocolates, special meals and holidays. These are all well and good, but it's important to preserve the true meaning of the Easter season: celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. To get to Easter, we have to go through the Passion. [OBLIGATORY SPOILER WARNING] Mel Gibson’s 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ; does an excellent job of capturing the events of Good Friday with striking (and often horrific) accuracy. I applaud the cast and crew for doing their best to make the film as realistic as possible; the fact that the dialogue is entirely in Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew is great, it makes one feel as though they have been transported back to biblical times. I do wish they had included Jesus' consolation of the holy women (although apparently it's in a deleted scene).  From a cinematic perspective, this movie is incredible. The scenes are well shot (there's a littl