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Korn's New Album: Industrial Metal Dubstep - And It's Really Good!
Jonathan Davis with his microphone stand designed by H.R. Giger. (Yes, seriously.)I've long been a big fan of Korn, but it's been hard to get particularly animated when their last decent album (though...
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In Defence of Jar Jar Binks
This was originally a comment on the Topless Robot website and I've received 11 likes for it. I'm quite pleased with the comment and it seemed to represent the turn of the tide from general Jar Jar...
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Some Long Overdue Movie Reviews: Paul, Julie and Julia, Hanna
So....these are the Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve movies respectively.Paul (2011)Okay so, I'd been interesting in seeing this, but concerns over toilet humour meant that I didn't see...
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Two New Reviews: Films From Studio Ghibli and Kevin Smith
Arrietty (2010)I wasn't sure what to expect from this. I hadn't heard anyone else hyping this one up. Dammit internet, what is WRONG with you?So anyway, the movie starts up with a young boy being...
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A Selection of Lucio Fulci Classics....
Lucio Fulci is a big name in Italian horror and he's quite keen on including zombies in his films. One of the big attractions of his films is his inventive use of gore, allowing him to provide zombies...
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Movie Reviews: "Chronicle" and "Hesher"
Chronicle (2012)This film seemed to come out of nowhere and the trailer absolutely blew me away. (Though I advise everyone to steer clear of the trailer if they want to have the best cinema...
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A Selection Of Horror Reviews....
Humanoids From The Deep Effects guy Rob Bottin (The Thing, Total Recall, The Fog, Robocop) does this smaller movie. It's actually pretty good and the actings actually pretty good too. It just has a...
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What If The Critics Picked The Oscars?
Okay, I don't know about anyone else but I was peeved with the Oscar nomination choices. I was one of many pointing out that Drive had high critical praise (as well as popularity amongst ordinary...
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Critics VS Oscars
While many were upset with the Oscars this year, it actually matched up with critic's choices a lot better than previous years. "A Separation" was the most widely favoured foreign language this year,...
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"Jump For Us Virginia!": John Carter - Movie Review
John Carter (2012)From the director of Wall-E and Finding Nemo. I was pretty excited about this one. Sure, the marketing has been pants, but that's not all that surprising. But I was sure that, with...
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Atheists Discuss "New Atheism" on the Beyond Belief Podcast
"Beyond Belief" is a BBC podcast that often does a good job of getting an even explanation of religious ideas. However, this new entry is one where I think people might be interested. It's a discussion...
View ArticleHesher - Swimming Pool Scene
Very probably the best scene in the movie "Hesher". It doesn't really give anything away about the rest of the film.(video link)
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Two films I didn't finish....
Last night I came home from work and decided to sit down in front of a movie. I picked "The Conformist". A film I'd picked up because I'd missed it when it was advertised at an art cinema where I used...
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More Reviews: The Devil's Double, The Whistleblower, Mystic River and Colombiana
The Devil's Double (2011)The story of the double for Saddam Hussein's son, Uday Hussein. Both the parts of Uday and his double are played by Dominic Cooper.Dominic Cooper is becoming quite a...
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16 More "Drive" Style Songs
In my last post I came up with 10 songs that resembled the style of music in the "Drive" soundtrack. I'm now back to make even more recommendations, particular after having come across the "Valerie and...
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Friday The 13th - The Entire Franchise! (First Installment)
A friend has lent me their box set of Friday The Thirteenth movies 1 through 8. They've also lent me a separate DVD of part 9. I already own part 10 (the only one I'd seen prior to the decision to...
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"I guess Jesus was down at the mill forgiving all the drunks. Who knew?"
Warrior (2011)Tom Hardy vs... that other guy. I'd heard this described as two small generic stories glued together to make a full feature. Certainly I think it makes sense to consider the story of each...
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Win Win, Killer Elite and The Ides Of March - Movie Reviews!!!
Win Win (2011)In a recent post I looked at which movies (if only looking at non-documentaries with a reasonable number of reviews counted) would be the top ten of each year according to Rotten...
View Article"The Host" teaser trailer looks.... good?
I've heard a lot of negative comments about this. Now actually when you look at the synopsis for the book, I can understand why you might be negative about it. However, just looking at the teaser I...
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