Netflix Find of the Week: Room 237
You can always rely on Netflix to never have most of the new releases you want streaming, but damn, do they ever have documentaries on lockdown. I’d heard of Room 237 ahead of stumbling across…
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Pixar Characters as Video Game Heroes
Beloved video game characters meet beloved Pixar characters in this mashup series from artist Renegade21. I’d seen his Commander Lightyear Mass Effect/Toy Story variant before, but the rest of these are new to me. I…
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Five Characters Who Are Confused About Their Genre
The thing about most stories is that the characters don’t realize they’re in a story. Yes, breaking or leaning on the fourth wall is a time-honored tradition in theater, television, and film (less so in…
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Blockbuster Fully Dead At Last
It’s the end of an era. After years of getting absolutely demolished by Netflix, Blockbuster is finally closing down its 300 remaining stores and mail-in DVD business. In short, it’s dead. All the way dead….
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If Star Wars Was a Young Adult Series
Artist Desiree likes Star Wars like me and you, but not as much for its lightsaber battles and force chokes. Rather, her art focuses on the romance of it all, be it Han and Leia,…
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Jar Jar Binks Dies in Episode One Deleted Scene
Alright, I’ve been perplexed about this video all day, and maybe some of you can help be straighten out what’s going on here. It’s supposedly a deleted scene from Star Wars: Episode I that shows…
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Dafoe’s Joker
(click for full size) It’s pretty hard to imagine recasting the Joker at this point, so close to Heath Ledger’s immortal portrayal of the clown prince of crime. But we’ll have to do it eventually,…
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Unreal Movie Review: Ender’s Game
Ender’s Game exists in a weird limbo of movie adaptation. It’s not handled so poorly it’s an affront to the original book, but it doesn’t make much of an impression at all, which is unfortunate…
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Why Haven’t You Seen It: Rubber
There are two kinds of people on this Earth. The people who hate the movie Rubber, and the people who love it. I am obviously from the second category, but will warn you right now….