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by | March 16, 2012

Link Dump: #61

Oh my god, look at that cute leopard kitty from Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo! It’s so adorable! Also here’s some links: College Humor presents “Official Spoiler Rules.” (h/t Anne Billson.) Modern Football, a once-lost half-hour Robert Altman film, has been rediscovered! … Continue reading →

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by | January 10, 2012

How Wude

Sometimes perverse curiosity gets the better of me. Sometimes I revisit movies like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), it was the most-anticipated movie of 1999. But the intervening … Continue reading →

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by | October 10, 2011

Brain Teasers

By Andreas The first hour of Fiend Without a Face (1958) just sucks. It’s the usual Cold War atomic paranoia stuff—an American military base on Canadian soil, experiments with nuclear-powered radar, a series of unexplained murders—told in the most pedestrian … Continue reading →

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by | September 30, 2011

Link Dump: #46

This week’s kitty is from the ’80s horror classic Night of the Creeps, which gave us Tom Atkins as a zombie-killing cop with an unforgettable catchphrase (“Thrill me”). If you’ve seen the movie—or, really, any horror movie—you know that misfortune … Continue reading →

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by | September 23, 2011

Link Dump: #45

This week’s lucky kitty, being held by Natalie Wood, comes to us courtesy of the Super Seventies tumblr. This week’s collection of links, meanwhile, is extra-swollen with informational goodness, since we didn’t have one last week (blogathon and all, you … Continue reading →

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