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Schlock Mercenary: July 24, 2017 -

plato's cave thirty two (being a film journal) it is happening again - Mark Frost and David Lynch - *Twin Peaks* - 2017 From Part One, Introduction of an essential element in the new Twin Peaks : *electricity* Cooper is with ...

First Hurt, now Heard - I don't know about you, but whenever I heard the names John Heard or John Hurt, I always had to pause for a moment to remember which was which. One was an...

'The Originalist' returns to Arena Stage - (L to R) Brett Mack (Brad), Edward Gero (Antonin Scalia), and Jade Wheeler (Cat) in The Originalist (Gary W. Sweetman/Asolo Repertory Theatre) When John St...

‘Dunkirk’ Battles To Top Spot, ‘Valerian’ Flops [Box Office] - [image: Dunkirk][image: ‘Dunkirk’ Battles To Top Spot, ‘Valerian’ Flops [Box Office]] If you had flagging faith that audiences would show up in numbers to ...

This isn’t a real post but it’s still worth it. - So in the morning we leave for our road trip and you can follow it on instagram but before we left I had to post this video of Dorothy Barker so that I can...

Restaurant review: BARRAFINA (Covent Garden) - On my birthday (18th April), I ventured out of my cheap and cheerful and/or Groupon-bought dining comfort zone and celebrated in style with an altogether m...

Bearista - [image: Bearista]

The Love Witch - The Love Witch: a modern-day witch is testing her potions on handsome men in a quest to find true love. I don’t think I’ve seen a more accurate and loving ...

Review: Killing Ground, 2017, dir. Damien Power - In stark contrast to Kuso, that really gross movie I reviewed the other day, here’s my review of Damien Power’s Killing Ground over at Paste Magazine, whic...

Review: The Cityborn by Edward Willett - THE CITYBORN is fueled by its dystopian society. In a place only known as ‘The City’, there are clear lines between the rich and the poor. There can so m...

Dunkirk I Hardly Know Kirk - . My favorite thing about Christopher Nolan (who is not by any stretch of the imagination a film-maker I'm super fond of) is his Tom Hardy addiction. So th...

DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933) - *MORE 1001 MOVIES FROM THE 30's* *(Post 12 of 20) * Gary Cooper and Fredrick March admire a saucy dame in *Design for Living* Ernst Lubitsch's *Design for...

Summer of Mermaids Art Sale - Hey friends! For those of you who have a train to catch, here's a short version of this post: *I’m having a summer art sale.* There are things up in my Et...

Alain Delon on FilmStruck - FilmStruck is currently running a feature on Alain Delon, so I thought it would be fun to make a little guide to their lineup. I decided to divide my rec...

Tigron and Taboo: the Freudian Dream Theater of FLASH GORDON (1936) + Aura the Merciful - The murky Freudian sexuality of dreams sometimes creates a kind of bilateral lurching movement, as if crashing sideways through a row of Natural History ...

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 10 - "Laura is the one." - This week *Twin Peaks* both fulfilled my expectations and surprised me, in a fashion I've come to understand as the way this bird flies. The overall shap...

Oh hello! I'm a toot. - [image: Oh hello! I'm a toot.] View

It Comes at Night - Trey Edward Shults’s second feature film is an austere and controlled enquiry into what happens when— … No, wait. Almost wandered into spoiler territory ...

Emmy Wishlists: Limited Series/TV Movie - Once again, the Emmy nominations are tomorrow. I already posted my wishlists (Comedy and Drama) of favorite shows and performances which I wish would be no...

Retrospective Review: CBS’s The Man Upstairs (1992) - Retrospective Review: CBS’s *The Man Upstairs* (1992) An eccentric woman with moralistic values befriends a man who has found himself on the wrong side o...

Halfway point: Best songs of 2017 so far (#5 - #1) - 1.) Everything Now by Arcade Fire Nothing I've heard this year is as epic as that piano kicking in at 0.45. For me, 2017's song of the summer, geared tow...

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...

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...

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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