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Princess Bride

question of the day: What movies (or other entertainments) do a good job of sending up high fantasy?

Tue, Apr 12, 2011
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The awfulness that is Your Highness intends to be a sendup of high fantasy but mostly just engages the clichés of genre and embellishes them with a few swear words and bong hits. What other movies (or books, or TV shows, etc) get it right?

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question of the day: What movie, when you stumble across it channel surfing, will you always stay to watch through to the end, no matter how many times you’ve seen it?

Wed, Mar 23, 2011
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I’ve got more than one. But if it’s on a channel that interrupts movies with commercials, that can kill the mood for me, and send me surfing again…

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watch it: “Star Wars meets The Princess Bride – The Chatty Duelists”

Tue, Dec 14, 2010
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It’s harder to be chatty, it seems, when the damn lightsabers are so noisy…

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classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Genesis of the Daleks”

Mon, Oct 18, 2010
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It’s weird to look back at ‘Genesis of Daleks’ now and know that the first time I saw this — it would have been back in the early 1980s — I had no idea what the hell a Dalek was.

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question of the day: Who is your favorite villain from all of pop culture?

Mon, Aug 09, 2010
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I’m not sure that I have a favorite villain, but The Princess Bride’s Prince Humperdinck’s ‘I killed you too quickly last time’ comes in handy once in a while.

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‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Big Bang”

Sun, Jun 27, 2010
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Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.

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Friday night fortune cookie: the Dread Pirate Westley says…

Fri, May 21, 2010
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“Life is pain. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”

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‘Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride’ now available in ebook format

Wed, May 19, 2010
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I am delighted to announce that the second prong — ebooks — of my plan to become Empress of the Internet has begun to be implemented. My book The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, a long deconstruction of that cult-favorite film, is now available in multiple ebook formats via Smashwords. You can read … more…

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‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Flesh and Stone”

Sun, May 02, 2010
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Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.

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March 5: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Fri, Mar 05, 2010
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re late, you’re late, for a very important date. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Alice in Wonderland this … more…

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