Looks something like this, according to a 1918 Danish film entitled Himmelskibet, or A Trip To Mars. You should see what the explorers from Earth that the happy Martians are…
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In New Zealand we have a conservative government and our Film Commission has just been reviewed. In the UK, the new Conservative-Lib/Dem government decided to just shoot theirs in the…
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A British hedge fund manager has cornered the market in cocoa: The British news media has christened Mr. Ward “Chocolate Finger,” a nod to the Bond villain Auric Goldfinger. And…
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In my most recent little squabble with the commenter Fuzzy Bastard, he brought up, albeit in a fashion that initially vexed me, an interesting point about moviegoers and/or cinephiles conflating…
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Oh my. I have once more been "tagged" with a "meme," and am compelled to...obey. Up to a point. MovieMan0283 did the deed in a comment in the thread for…
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In my Daily Notebook musings on Clint Eastwood, I tell this (hopefully) amusing anecdote: "...around spring 1981, standing outside Cinema Village, waiting to go into a rep screening ofThe Shining and The…
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