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Kinda Misleading....
It seems that this poster was put up in the lobby of the Main Art Theatre instead of the official version. How many little girls now want to see this clearly highly inventive fantasy movie, lol?This is...
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Zombie Movies?
An original take on the zombie genre and bizarre 80s sci-fi zombies. (Yes that second entry is a bit of a cheat and certainly isn't "horror", but what the heck.)Pontypool (2008)Okay, so I'd heard...
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Bad Trailers
There've been two trailers I've seen in cinemas recently that have caused other people in nearby rows to say out loud "well I'm not seeing that then". In both cases, I must admit that the trailers have...
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"How about this- shut your mouth or I'll kick your teeth down your throat and...
Drive (2011) Wow. Okay look, the short of it is that this is the best movie I've seen so far in 2011. Even if you don't find that you rate it as highly as I do, everyone is going to be talking about...
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Night of the Living Dead - The 1990 Remake!
Night of the Living Dead (1990)(including comparison with the 1968 original)Tom Savini, make-up artist for many classic horror movies and bit-part actor on a few occasions (perhaps most notably as "sex...
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou: Atheist Theologian Extraordinaire
Okay, so I just heard of her for the first time ever the other night when she appeared on the BBC Radio Comedy show "Museum of Curiosity". I've got lots to say about what I've come across, but for now...
View ArticleCookie Monster Sings: "God's Away On Business"
(Video link)Naturally the real singer is Tom Waits, but somehow it fits in with the Cookie Monster pretty damn well. Pretty cool song too...
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Stavrakopoulou: The Bible's Buried Secrets
I have now worked my way through Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou's "The Bible's Buried Secrets" and I f---ing LOVE it.I think the great thing about it is that, while she is often stating outright what...
View ArticleBen Goldacre Explains Bad Science
I would presume that most people are familiar with Ben Goldacre by now, but just in case, here's a quick summary. He's a former doctor, now an epidemiologist. His main field of interest is the way to...
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"I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him."
Reviews of two science fiction movies "Altered States" and "This Island Earth". The first of these films, "Altered States", contains a scene which terrified me as a child, but it's only now that I've...
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"Just hide out here for a few days and let her blow up like a balloon."
Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman - Original (1958) and remake (1993)Imdb links:Original version (1958)Remake (1993)One line synopsis: An abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounterGenre:...
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"I'm not really down with the good neighbour shit."
Director Showcase: Erick ZoncaJulia (2008)I already reviewed Julia quite a long time ago, but my review of it (as emphatic as my praise may have been) was rather short. The fact is, it has come to be...
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"Hey, what are you doing with that gun?"
In one of the "Horror Etc." podcasts on zombie movies they pointed out an Italian zombie movie from 1980 called "Nightmare City". So I decided to check it out....Nightmare City (1980)Imdb linkOne Line...
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"As a horror writer I don't ask for much. I just hope I've changed the way...
That's right. I've now discovered....Garth Marenghi's "Darkplace" (2004)Each episode of this Channel Four TV show begins with the following lines:"I'm Garth Marenghi. Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary....
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Various Funny Movie-Related Stuff
(video link)(video link)(That last frame needs to be made into an LJ-icon. Seriously...)Take one. Tis but a scratch!Nearly everything here has been cross-posted somewhere. I'm not about to list all...
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Is The Pope Creating A New Blood Libel Against Atheists?
(Short answer is "no" btw..., but there's more.)Interesting article.The article states its focus as follows:"Joseph Ratzinger knows that he can’t aim his pious invective at the Jewish people as his...
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What The Actual F***?
After this young woman’s father was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he was told by the doctor to take it easy since he’s a manual laborer. Yet he went back to work full-time, working 12 hours a day, six...
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In Memory Of Christian Forum Discussions...
that_atheist's most recent post gives yet another example of apologetic methods used on religious or non-religious internet forums. In this case it's the old "I'm sure you'd agree" method of asserting...
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