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Raiders of the Lost Ark

what movie has most inspired you in your life?

Mon, Nov 04, 2013
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Perhaps a film actually inspired you to do something or learn something. Perhaps it’s merely a positive feeling that a particularly film left you with.

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feel the rush of endorkins (Star Trek Into Darkness review)

Wed, May 08, 2013
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A Star Trek for our times. Very much for our times. Which means there’s little hope to be found here…

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Doctor Who blogging: “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”

Tue, Apr 30, 2013
51 comments

Really? A giant reset button? An actual in-fact for-real big-friendly reset button? Really?

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George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s Raiders brainstorming… read it all

Wed, Apr 03, 2013
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The thing that really gets me about this: the almost unimaginable luxury of having five days to just sit around brainstorming creative stuff…

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QOTD: What are the best movie soundtracks ever?

Thu, Feb 07, 2013
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I swear I can hear the wind moving through tall prairie grass in John Barry’s music for Dances with Wolves…

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just when you think you’ve heard all the horrible racist crap the world has yet invented… (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Feb 01, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: What movie would you inject into your bloodstream?

Fri, Jan 25, 2013
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(Because science can now encode a movie into DNA.) Just to be ironic, I would have to inject Fantastic Voyage.

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Inigo Montoya upsets air travelers (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Jan 25, 2013
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Raiders of the Lost Ark. in black and white. total cinemagasm (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Dec 21, 2012
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Indiana Jones journal mystery solved!

Tue, Dec 18, 2012
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It’s part art project gone astray, part awesome boost to the United States Postal Service…

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