Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Paint the Black Hole Blacker
St. Vincent has actually managed to get me interested in music recorded within the last decade.
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It Makes Me Wonder
Rediscovering Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s amazing WWII romantic propaganda fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven in the U.S.)
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One After 9-9-09
The Beatles Rock Band really is Harmonix’s masterpiece, and should be required for anyone who still doubts the appeal of grown-ups playing with plastic guitars.
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Arrougant Basterds
Inglourious Basterds really is a revenge movie: not for Jews, but for the long-oppressed defenders of Quentin Tarantino. Minor spoilers for the movie.
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The Shrimpire Strikes Back
Trying to decide if District 9 is a message movie with explosions, or an explosion movie with a message. Either way, we all win.
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Sookie the Vampire Layer
I didn’t expect to like “True Blood” at all. I definitely didn’t expect to get completely wrapped up in it.
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Extraterrestrials. Magic & Witchcraft. Missing Persons. Lost Civilizations. Polar Bears.
ABC has dug out clips from an old “In Search Of…”-style series from the 80s called “Mysteries of the Universe.” They say it’ll be interesting to followers of the series “Lost.” Here’s the first clip, more will follow in the coming months: (Check out the official version to see it larger and without as much…
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An Immodest Proposal
The “Children of Earth” mini-series perfectly encapsulates everything I like and hate about Torchwood
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Very Red Necks
The only good thing I have to say about Near Dark is that at least the vampires don’t sparkle. Bonus: a rant about Transformers 2.
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Oh, dag-dag, Mark!
So after hearing and reading about it from all over, and then in preparation for the RiffTrax release, I finally bought and watched The Room. (In case you haven’t heard of the movie, it’s a comically inept melodrama-turned-comedy that developed a cult following after being relentlessly promoted in the LA area. Imagine this scene repeated…
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Searching for Long-Range Comms
Moon is a 1970s psychological sci-fi movie artfully translated into 2009.