- Karma

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I'm sure this won't exactly come as a shock, but I've made quite a few embarrassing screw-ups in the time that I've been blogging. There have been spelling errors, lapses in research, mistaken names, etc. A particularly painful self-inflicted thorn i ...
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At the beginning of the year, Hugo was nominated for a ton of Oscars, later going on to take pretty much every technical award the Academy could offer (totally screwing over Tree of Life in the process, not that I'm still bitter about that ...
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When I first saw The Avengers, it had already made millions of dollars. When I saw The Avengers a second time, it had just crossed the billion-dollar mark worldwide. The global tally had even beaten that of The Dark Knight, which -- lest we forget -- ...
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It's hard to know where to begin describing The Pirates! Band of Misfits, just because of how extraordinarily silly it is. How silly is it? The main characters are never given names. The film follows a pirate captain who's only ever referred to ...
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Take a look at this.That bit of craziness was the trailer for The Devil's Carnival, a rock opera short film from the people who made Repo! The Genetic Opera. My information about the film is very slim, but one of my favorite film ...
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Take a look at this.That bit of craziness was the trailer for The Devil's Carnival, a rock opera short film from the people who made Repo! The Genetic Opera. My information about the film is very slim, but one of my favorite film ...
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The essence of being a geek is passion. It's all about openly loving something to an unreasonable level and sharing that love with other like-minded people. Naturally, this involves huge shows of proud affection -- cosplaying, taking part in viral ad ...
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Partly for my own enlightenment, and partly because today's movie was coming out, I recently bought and read a compilation of the poems and short stories of Edgar Allen Poe. And at the risk of inviting disparaging comments, I wasn't impressed.Don't g ...
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This is a weird weekend in movies, ladies and gents. Putting together the arthouse and mainstream pictures released in Portland today, there's a huge variety of new arrivals on display (a stop-motion kids' film, a rom-com, an action spectacular, a do ...
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Curiosity Inc created new blog entry Movie Curiosities: The Cabin in the Woods (2nd Take in Film ReviewPart of the reason why I started blogging was so I could have an outlet for my thoughts about movies. Nothing in all of cinema pleases me more than to leave a theater brimming over with inspiration, my head buzzing with countless thoughts just ...
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A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure to see a very funny stage production called "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)." It was pretty much exactly what the title would suggest. The historical epics ("Julius Caesar," "Rich ...
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Curiosity Inc added a new comment in blog Movie Curiosities: Bully...I do agree that the film doesn't go into a great amount of detail regarding the bully's perspective, but the reformed bully I mentioned did raise a few points to address that.Personally, I'm guessing that there were a number of reasons why the filmma
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Socio-political documentaries are inherently propaganda. They are made as calls to action, designed to get their audience riled up about a particular cause. Even when the filmmakers try to be neutral, there's always an agenda on display. Natura ...
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At this point, everyone and their dog has heard the news that Joss Whedon has a new film coming out on May 4th. It's only a ginormous summer tentpole spectacular with a huge amount of publicity from Hollywood and from fans. But how many people know t ...
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If I had a time machine, my first destination would be sometime in 1998. Why? Well, I'd obviously want to kill George Lucas with a shovel. But before doing that, I'd want to take hundreds of copies of this picture and put them into every teen magazin ...