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Blog of Thrones: ‘Valar Dohaeris’ Picks Up the Pieces
Jon Snow, still knows nothing. In the intense closing moments of Game of Thrones’ second season, we learned a new phrase. “Valar Morghulis,” or “all men…
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Fund This Film: Alex Cox’s Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Bill the Galactic Hero’ is the Anti-’Starship Troopers’
Cover illustration from a 1975 printing of Bill, the Galactic Hero by Michael Gross. Crowdfunding was made for guys like Alex Cox. Similar to Ralph Bakshi,…
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21 Things We Learned From Scream Factory’s ‘From Beyond’ Commentary
Stuart Gordon’s 1985 film, Re-Animator, remains one of the absolute best horror/comedies of the last three decades thanks to its spectacular mix of over the…
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Blog of Thrones: Death Comes for Everyone and Everything
301 days. Not that anyone’s counting, but that is how long it will have been when “Valar Dohaeris,” the first episode of Game of Thrones’…
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How Digital Libraries Made My DVD Collection Better
These are hard times for physical media devotees. The format isn’t dead yet – Blu-Rays and DVDs still represent 61% of home video spending –…
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Fund This Film: ‘Beyond the Bolex’ Looks At the Past and Future of Your First Movie Camera
Do you know who Jacques Bolsey was? Also known as Jacques Bogopolsky, he was the inventor of the Bolex movie camera, the name of which…
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22 Things We Learned From the ‘This Is 40’ Commentary
“I think you think I never cut anything, but I cut tons of stuff. It’s long and I cut in half.”
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Fund This Film: ‘Momentum’ is Original, Smart and Well-Designed Science Fiction
Fund This Film: ‘Momentum’ is Original, Smart and Well-Designed Science Fiction After all that has happened with Kickstarter this week, Fund This Film seems to be…
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33 Things We Learned from the ‘Psycho’ Commentary
Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock has many connections to this week. First of all, this past Tuesday was “National Alfred Hitchcock Day,” during which cinema fans…
