Featured Stories The Great Music Catalog Sell Off Bob Dylan $400 MillionThe Great Music Catalog Sell Off In what came as a surprise to many, the final months of 2020 saw an unprecedented number of high-profile artists selling off their song catalogs to the highest bidders. The most prominent among them was Bob Dylan, who turned over the rights to his more than 600 songs for the […] MOVIE REVIEW OF ”MONSTERS OF MAN”MOVIE REVIEW OF ”MONSTERS OF MAN” One of the worst things a movie can do is wear out its welcome. Sadly, Australian filmmaker Mark Toia couldn’t bear to trim 30 minutes off this derivative, two-hour plus, paranoid, sci-fi thriller “Monsters of Men” (*1/2 OUT OF ****), a drawn-out, predictable, bloodthirsty catalog of clichés. 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