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Recently, over at a site called Movie Line I saw two videos on the 1983 HBO movie intro sequence — both the opener itself, and a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made. For anyone with even the slightest bit of 80’s nostalgia (of the sort I’ve been chronicling in my Movies of a Misspent [...]
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I don’t know from whom or where this originated, by I found it through Facebook friend (and fantasy writer) Bruce Durham. It is a tour of Robert E. Howard’s home in the company of Norris Chambers, a man who, as a child, knew Howard and was a friend of the family. A fascinating glimpse of [...]
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I have always been interested in some of the what if’s of World War II, especially some of the more extravagant super weapons that never got off the drawing board. 1945A, a short film from Ryan Nagata, takes the scifi potential inherent in that premise and runs with it. Pretty amazing work that again just [...]
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Here is a short presentation from blogger and podcaster Chad Henderson, explaining all the life-lessons he learned from D&D. You know, stuff like the importance of initiative, how to cope when things don’t go according to plan, and dealing with failure. Oh, and not to trust gnomes.
All I Need To Know About Life I learned [...]
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Uncle Ridley has done right by me more times than I can count, and his upcoming Robin Hood looks to be no exception. A few trailers for the movie, starring Russell Crowe as the erstwhile man-in-tights, have been floating around, and I figured I’d jump on the bandwagon. What I’m really digging about this project [...]
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What holiday would be complete without reference to David Lynch? Here is a goofy rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas actually recorded by some of the Twin Peaks cast back in 1990. It features four talking logs, six fish in a percolator, eight dancing midgets — you get the idea. A bit of tongue-in-cheek [...]
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Lately I’ve been listening to — and loving — a science fiction oriented podcast called the Sofanauts. Sadly, just as I got to the point where I had listened to all of the thirty plus episodes and was eagerly awaiting more, the man behind the ‘cast, Tony C. Smith, announced he was putting the project [...]
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Over at Black Gate I just posted about the trailer for the upcoming remake of the 1981 Clash of the Titans, due out some time in the Spring of next year. The original Clash was a Harryhausen tour de force, a film still very watchable today.
Since I can’t embed video at the BG site, I’m [...]
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