[thanx to Josh Hollis for the header. He can be found wherever there is a repeat of NCIS, NCIS: LA and occasionally NCIS: NO.] Mad Men, a popular show for people whose job it is to write about Mad Men, is starting its final slate of episodes tonight. Don Draper got shitfaced for your
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Claude and Gg from the “Talking Cast?!?” podcast join me to talk about Jim Jarmusch’s gorgeous vampire love story “Only Lovers Left Alive” and Neil Jordan’s beautifully gloomy “Byzantium” in this bloody double-feature! Original episode art by Josh Hollis
Everyone loves a good old-fashioned dystopian future. They are cool now so I decided to study this movie trope. More specifically I looked at the 1960s idea of a dystopian future and the modern film’s dystopian future. I watched the following films in preparation for this series. Three from the 1960s, The 10th Victim –
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It happens to everyone. Your best friend who lives on the other side of the country sends you some variation of a text message that says “I’m on the bus right now and your EXACT DOUBLE just got on! Totally thought it was you!” Your response is almost always a silent shudder and a simple
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What is reality? Should we trust those in power? Who am I? These are among the questions that legendary cult god science fiction prophet Philip K. Dick weaved into his decades’ worth of novels and short stories. He had 44 novels and 141 short stories published between 1951 and 1982. Today, he would be 86.
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