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Transformers: The Last Knight - *Transformers: The Last Knight* was a waste of some pretty cool robot fight choreography, and an absolute squandering of Anthony Hopkins and Isabela Mone...

Who Wants Harrison Ford in Jeans? - . I want Harrison Ford in jeans. .

Lizzy Caplan Joins ‘Das Boot’ TV Sequel - [image: mastersofsex-Lizzy-Caplan][image: Lizzy Caplan Joins ‘Das Boot’ TV Sequel] Well over a year ago, it was announced that an 8-hour, TV sequel to *Wol...

Jills of Jack Hill Part 2: BIG DOLL HOUSE, COFFY, SWINGING CHEERLEADERS, SORCERESS, BIG BIRD CAGE, FOXY BROWN - At last, the color portion of my promised Hill oeuvre, celebrating the mountain of Hills now available on Blu-ray, framing the golden question of whethe...

Interview: Ana Lily Amirpour, “The Bad Batch” - First: I got to interview Ana Lily Amirpour, director of 2014’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and last Friday’s The Bad Batch, and if I had to describe ...

Halfway point: Best songs of 2017 so far (#15 - #11) - *11.) Evening Prayer by Jens Lekman* (A strangely upbeat song about a tumor) *12.) You Can Never Go Back to New York by The Magnetic Fields* (Very cat...

Review: The Waking Land by Callie Bates - Revolution is a messy, dangerous business and THE WAKING LAND doesn’t pull punches to depict it. After her father’s failed uprising, Elanna Valtai was ta...

Tell me where to go. Literally. - Once a year we try to go on a family vacation and this year is no different, except that it is because I’m still not completely recovered from whatever vam...

Product reviews: BOX OF SIX MACARONS (Ladurée) and POSH PROFITEROLES (Marks and Spencer) - *"Not really your kind of place, is it?"* Five years ago, my best friend Anna (the girl whom this blog is named after) and I went to Ladurée, as a snooty...

Audient Anime: Castle in the Sky - *This is the third in a bi-monthly 2017 series devoted to catching up with the greats of anime I haven't seen, preferably with one or both of my sons.* As ...

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 - "Gotta light?" - Through almost my entire history of watching *Twin Peaks*, I've watched it alone. I saw the first two seasons on my computer screen, with headphones, in ...

metalepsis - cd by javier hernando ‎entitled metalepsis 90​/​96 photos by the art of memory's matthew swiezynski

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle - Julien Temple’s ‘The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle’ posits that there’s no such thing as rock ‘n’ roll. It does so by mapping out a fictive account of the ...

ME AND MY GAL (1932) - *MORE 1001 MOVIES FROM THE 30's* *(Post 6 of 20)* Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett in *Me and My Gal* *Me and My Gal *is an early talkie that's kind of a ro...

Summer Movie Blogathon: La Piscine (1969) - For the Summer Movie Blogathon, I decided to pay tribute to my favorite summer flick, La Piscine (1969) starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ron...

News: Alan Gilbert Goes to Hamburg - When Alan Gilbert was named the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in July of 2007, the classical music world did its best impression of one of th...

Wishing Eye Was There - [image: Wishing Eye Was There]

Let’s Talk About Virtual Reality Gaming - So let’s talk about virtual reality gaming, what was suppose to be the big, hot thing in 2017. What happened? Phones came with them, developers came up, an...

Some Early Theories on Twin Peaks: The Return - The following is some quick ideas I developed during a recent re-watch of the new *Twin Peaks* (Parts 1, 2 and some of 3). I am well aware that all of wha...

Spirit of Spring - Hello friends! Just a quick note to tell you all that, despite *five months* without posting, this blog has *not* ended. It's been hard to keep up with t...

Big Ideas – Alien: Covenant - Big Ideas – *Alien: Covenant* *Covenant* does a bit more than just lay out intertextual reference to spice up a familiar narrative. Identity Theory

De Palma - De Palma: two directors plonk a camera in front of legendary director Brian De Palma, and he discusses his turbulent career, warts ‘n’ all. This kicks off ...

You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - [image: You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you] This is a comic about the backfire effect. View

Where am I? - Find me now at www.cultcredentials.wordpress.com

- * My vote - Best Actress 1999* For years I had stayed away from Boys Don’t Cry, fearing that the drama level is gonna make it really uncomfortab...

The Problem of the Magical Transportation Book in Beauty and the Beast - First and foremost, I actually liked the live-action remake of *Beauty and the Beast*. For the most part, the casting was right on and it really was a jo...

Celebrate March Movie Badness with Comet TV - The biggest tournament in sports is in full-swing, but it's not too late to catch Comet TV for some of the worst films in film history. To celebrate March...

THE DEATH OF ANTAGONY & ECSTASY - This will be the last new post on Antagony & Ecstasy, almost eleven and a half years after the first one. It has been a good and steady companion to me, an...

The Rocky Varla Picture Show - *(Or: Faster, Frankenfurt! Kill! Kill!)* Respectfully dedicated to all my friends at Sins o' the Flesh and Girlwerks Media Sometimes, the unexpected pleas...

End of Golden Tabloid - Achewood strip for Sunday, December 25, 2016

12:00 - Funai Electric, the last remaining company to manufacture VCRs, has announced that it will make its final VCR units this month, marking the end of an era.

Welcome to 1000 Awesome Things! - Hey everyone, My name is Neil and you’ve stumbled on my blog 1000 Awesome Things. I wrote an entry on this site for 1000 straight weekdays from 2008 to 2...

Kostenlos Two of a Kind Filme Online Gucken - Sie sind Sie in der Suche nach Two of a Kind HD Filme Online?. Sie haben den richtigen Ort kommen.Erstaunliche Two of a Kind in Blu-ray Format angucken, At...

A Softer World: 1248 - buy this comic as a print! Or share on: facebookreddit If you enjoy the comic, please consider supporting A Softer World on Patreon

Patty Duke dies, she was 69 - I was saddened to hear of the passing of Patty Duke, best known for her Oscar winning performance as Hellen Keller in *The Miracle Worker, *one of my favor...

Surprising Things You Didn’t Know Affected Your Credit Score - Surprising Things You Didn’t Know Affected Your Credit Score Generally we think that our credit score is only affected by credit cards and loan, but in fac...

New Beginnings - It's with a bittersweet feeling that I announce this news, but this blog will be permanently closed and not updated again. I'm not going anywhere of course...

Book Blogger Appreciation Week: Meet Masanobu from All the Pretty Books! - Hey friends! As many of you know, this is BBAW 2016, which means I get to introduce you to my new friend, Masanobu, from All the Pretty Books. (I know, I k...

First Time Viewings / 2015 - Twenty five, in vaguely preferential order: *Les Fantomes du Chapelier* (Claude Chabrol, 1982) *Alice, or the Last Escapade* (Claude Chabrol, 1977) *Abigail...

Queen Of The Quiffs - When I was 14, I was crowned Queen of the Quiffs! In light of the Steve Harvey / Miss Universe Pageant fiasco last night, I hope this true and mortifying s...

Suffragette (**) - SUFFRAGETTE Directed by Sarah Gavron ** *Suffragette *is a purposefully-directed film with good intentions. It gets a performance out of Carey Mulligan t...

Thinking About Fast Methods In Bathroom Vanities Design - Prolonged gazing in to one’s toilet reflect had been considered a significant vice. For mirror, you are able to, could be the step-sister regarding pleasur...

Pază fără egal - Aseară, în timp ce aşteptam la rând să-mi iau un bilet la meciul de baschet,mi-a şoptit o păsărică o poveste de-a dreptul halucinantă. Stabilimentul come...

Leasing Pesawat - Leasing telah menjadi teknik umum untuk memperoleh pesawat terbang, karena aset ini telah menjadi mahal dan selalu tunduk pada berbagai peraturan perundang...

The Leading Shoe Guidance You Will Study - With the unlimited variety of choices right now, shoe purchasing can be challenging. What do you look for in a shoe? What are the greatest and coolest new ...

I Know, I Know... - ...you know. Notes of an Angry White Guy

The Tree of Life (2011, Malick) - Terrence Malick's cosmic elegy is not just larger-than-life: it bypasses life. The movie confirms what theologists deny but we may suspect: that there is a...

Best of of 2014 Complete List - *1. * *2.* Review *3.* Review *4.* Review *5.* Review *6.* Review *7.* Review *8.* *9.* Review *10.* *Review* *Runners Up* 11. Force Majeure 12. F...

Art History Tours in Italy this Spring! - Hello! In 2011 I taught my first overseas art history course in Italy (ART HIST 3V03: Studies in Venetian Art & Theory). That was followed by a second v...

Blogging Really Pumps My Nads - You see us as you want to see us—in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a Leprechaun,...

You Know in a Year I'm Gonna Be Happy - It's a strange feeling coming back to this blog well over a year from my last post. Looking over these pages. These words. All these feelings, emotions, s...

The Mutant Anti-Mammal - Gotta love Vice. I love articles like this even (and sometimes especially) when they contradict my own preferences. Vice: In Defense of Hairy Women It is...

Saving Mr. Banks - *"Just Because It's Fiction Doesn't Make it a Lie"** *or* *"Cavorting, Twinkling, and Prancing to a Happy Ending Like a Kamikaze"* Mary Poppins was a bitch...

- Hello! Just giving you all a heads up that I won't be uploading anything new for the rest of the year. That includes the next chapter for the Christmas Pla...

Menace - Power is intoxicating. Everyone loves having the ability to make their decisions into reality — to think "this should be something that happens," and then...

Get Your October Face On! - '

Review: "The Rugby Player" - As a new New Yorker, I'm not sure if I'm even allowed to commemorate 9/11 like the people who lived here when the attacks occurred. This was my second 9/...

Whoopi With Your Best Shot: The Color Purple - Typical me, I got a copy of the film in order to do an entry for The Film Experience's beloved (says I) "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series. Typical becaus...

Try to achieve that balance - In life and in art, I believe it all comes down to one word BALANCE. Sometimes it gets a little overwhelming...a writer's vertigo. I know one thing: I am t...

Short Review: 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' (2010) - [image: photo btbr_01.jpg] The culmination of what is generated through mood and atmosphere and its effect upon the way in which one interprets information...

a beautiful day in the neighborhood - For a while, I didn't really pick up my camera. I didn't shoot, I didn't edit, I didn't blog. Now that I've decided I want to keep blogging, I find myself ...

He met The One, again. - As I sat there, with the IT Pilot's profile photo staring right back at me, I felt a sudden rush of blood go through my face. It was official- he had chose...

Most Enjoyed / Fave Films of 2012 - Hey Moxie Moxie Readers, Listeners and Watchers! Long time no post, eh? It's the time of year that I usually am furiously listing, categorizing and re...

Sexy DJ Kim Lee Hot Pics - *DJ Kim Lee* *[image: Kim Lee boobs]*[image: Kim Lee bikini pose] [image: Kim Lee nude pics] [image: Kim Lee hot ass] [image: Kim Lee boobs] [image: Sexy Kim...

Of Something and Nothing in Particular comic for 20120910 - 20120910

Review Slam 6-14-12 - So, I figure, if I'm watching movies I have no reason to NOT write at least some kind of reviews for them. Thus, when I watch a few movies, I'm going to do...

A Brief History of Online Education - *The internet has given us many gifts throughout the years - from music and video game codes to not so G-rated material. Therefore, it is no surprise tha...

- I changed the address of the blog. It's now at mildlyinterestingthings.blogspot.com. It's exactly the same, apart from the name.

Rampart - In the opening scene of Rampart, we see LAPD officer Dave Brown behaving rather typically for a character in a corrupt cop movie. If the genre feels like ...

Alas...A New Blog..... - Hi Everyone....Finally I'm back & I have a New Home... Lemanie's Randomness I love you Melanie's Randomness and all the joy & awesomeness you have brough...

The 25 Best Performances of 2011, Part 2 - Yip... 10) Rainn Wilson, Super Super was an interesting film in many ways, the kind of bold genre revisionism that people like me really, really like, but...

Margin Call or "That One Big Oops" - Ok so me and the boy saw Margin Call over the weekend, admittedly partially against my will. But with a trailer like this, can you blame me for being reluc...

woah another one! - Instructions to make this here. So fucking cool I can't even.

Rapid Reviews: Gotta Get Caught Up! - Time to get this thing back on track, don't you think? We're about to hit Oscar season once again and I've been incredibly remiss in updating this blog. D...

It's Malibu McBee time! - So June marks the official start of summer or some shit, and with that comes all that cool shit that I like to do in the summer... like stay indoors out of...

KUATO -

And What Next? - As is its wont, the theatrical blogosphere is full of people getting angry. And that's okay--that's the purpose of theatre blogs: analyzing and decrying th...

Oh Goodness - Where does the time go? I must post more on this blog! All's well, I just get caught up in other things. So I figured I might as well return to blogging wi...

Making A Comeback - Hello my lovely followers, I hope you had a wonderfully relaxing winter holiday and a fun-filled New Year! It's been a while, huh? I'll admit, I completely...

New Year got you feeling a little "flushed?" Check out the NEW Strange Kids Club! - No worries. Strange Kid is back in business with a slew of cool new stuff planned for 2011 including the announcement of a brand new website: www.strangeki...

Donna Meets the Grim Reaper -

A farewell to Blogspot - After having Social Rupture up on Blogspot for probably far too long, I've decided to move it to Tumblr, as the interface is far more intuitive and it gene...

Gone With the wind (1939) - This movie set on my shelf still wrapped in its shiny red Netflix envelope, I am embarrassed to say, for several months. I was not looking forward to the ...

Go! Go! Go! - While I get the domain forwarding set up, the new site is up and running. GO HERE. NOW. Update your bookmarks, tell your family, your friends, your dog an...

15 Minute Play Festival - Well, okay. Not that anyone ever reads this anymore, but I thought I'd just drop in real quick and tell you guys my play, Bird Watching, was selected to be...

A last minute "write in" Niblet - No, it’s not for the Snarkernacle. For some inexplicable reason this hallowed site was not counted among those worthy of a Niblet nomination, and unlike so...

Crap - I haven't even looked at this thing in forever. I don't think anyone in my class has looked at their blog. Anyway, I have nothing to say. I'm just about t...

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