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Bela Lugosi as Jesus will blow your mind (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Jan 15, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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the 19th-century painting that inspired blockbuster movie posters (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Jan 14, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Dec 08-14 2012

Sun, Dec 16, 2012
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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Carnage (review)

Fri, Feb 10, 2012
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Sometimes it’s easy to separate the artist from his art. Roman Polanksi’s latest makes this really tough.

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Carnage (trailer)

Wed, Dec 07, 2011
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Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster: how can this not be great?

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question of the day: Google is guessing at the sexual orientation of celebs — is this weird?

Fri, Sep 30, 2011
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Google isn’t revealing any secrets, it’s just summarizing the conversation about a celebrity. But why suddenly make a special point of summarizing so succinctly about this particular aspect of a person’s life?

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watch it: “Armadyne: Taking Mankind Into The Future” (viral for Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’)

Mon, Jul 25, 2011
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After District 9, I will follow Neill Blomkamp anywhere…

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Tyler Perry tells Spike Lee to go to hell; an apology for ‘Superman Returns’; Canadians hate loud TV ads; more: leftover links

Mon, Apr 25, 2011
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Plus: Even rightwing bloggers admit Atlas Shrugged sucks; Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed covering fighting in Libya; Jodie Foster on yet another way Hollywood hates women…

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cinematic roots of: ‘The Night Chronicles: Devil’

Thu, Sep 30, 2010
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In The Night Chronicles: Devil, a group of hapless folks are trapped in an elevator with Satan. This flick sprang from (among other films)…

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retro trailer: ‘The Village of the Damned’

Sun, Aug 29, 2010
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Ah, it was the beginning of the subgenre of horror movies about demonic children that would enjoy a solid run in the 1960s and 70…

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