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Who’s there?
A trio of reckless thieves breaks into the house of a wealthy blind man, thinking they’ll get away with the perfect heist. They’re wrong. I guess home invasion movies about people lacking one of their senses are in right now? … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Basement: Battleship Potemkin
Matt and Craig are watching Sergei Eisenstein’s magnum opus on Welcome to the Basement. How did I never notice that Channing Tatum was in that movie? Truly Eisenstein was ahead of his time.
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Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Vox has a great writeup on Blade Runner: Autoencoded – a project from Terence Broad wherein Broad used “deep learning” AI algorithms to watch Blade Runner and basically “perceive” the movie. What you see on the right is a reconstruction … Continue reading
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A nenior narty?
Yoga Hosers is bumming me out, man. The first 58 seconds of this trailer are genuinely funny, and come from a movie that I seriously want to see. The eye-rolling, jaded teens who lead the film are charming, and the … Continue reading
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Honest Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Their Shells
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Their Shells is a pretty infamous piece of bizarro 90’s Ninja Turtles nonsense that everyone would have forgotten about had internet reviewers like the Nostalgia Critic gotten their hands on it. Well, there’s a … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Sylvester Stallone in “Farewell, My Lovely”
Here’s a complete random coincidence: during the 1970s, two of the biggest action stars ever had small bit parts playing thugs in completely separate film noir thrillers about the iconic detective character, Philip Marlowe. In 1973, a young bodybuilder named … Continue reading
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Have the monks stopped meditating?
I’ve been completely swamped with work lately, and one of the biggest reasons for that is also the subject of Werner Herzog’s latest documentaries, titled Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. In Lo and Behold, Herzog appears to … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars (2-for-1 Special): Matthew McConaughey and Adrien Brody in “Angels in the Outfield”
You might remember the 1994 Disney baseball movie, Angels in the Outfield, starring the likes of Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd and Tony Danza, but looking back on it now, it’s also got an awful lot of future star power. Of … Continue reading
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures
Here’s your random bit of movie trivia for the day: in the early 90’s, Fox thought it might be a good idea to try and translate time-traveling surfer rock gods Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan into a … Continue reading
Shouts From the Back Row – Episode 256 – The Rise and Fall and Rise of Robert Downey Jr.
Few celebrities have hit the highest heights and lowest lows that Robert Downey Jr. has experienced over the course of his career. Early in his career he was nominated for an Oscar and made some big hits, but in the … Continue reading