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The Internet Is My Best Friend: Best Internet Reads of the Year
In honor of the end of the passing of another year, I will join the ranks of internet lists everywhere for a year end round up. The internet, although good for lolcats and checking to see if your friends have changed their status to single, but occasionally there is something on the internet that will…
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QUICK HIT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Is this going to go down as the most polarizing movie of the year? It might be, with Cloud Atlas barely registering on the radar, and without a Michael Moore movie. The feeling I got when I heard anybody talking about this movie was that their love or hate…
Read MoreFlickchart’s Greatest Battles
FLICKCHART’S GREATEST BATTLES In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE Twister Vs. The Prestige Both movies aren’t remembered fondly, if they’re remembered at all. Not that they’re hated, they’re both just vaguely forgettable. Maybe they’ll help you win a…
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THE KILPATRICK FILES PART ONE Conor Kilpatrick, along with Ron Richards and Josh Flanagan, is the cleanest-shaved of the three headed monster that operates the comic book website iFanboy.com. The three friends started iFanboy a decade ago as an e-mail list, where each week one of them would pick what they thought was the best…
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THE POP FILTER TOP 40 TV THEME SONGS In which we finally fucking get to 10-1. 10. THE MUPPET SHOW Sometimes the point of a theme song can be to introduce you to the characters, or to the premise of the show. Sometimes it can be nothing more than shit that plays just so the…
Read MorePopfilter Weekend Muvie Revue
Weekend Muvie Revue The Dark Knight Rises When I listen to music, I pretty much just look for emotion. I don’t really care how on-key the vocals are or melodic the tune is as long as there’s a bare minimum of listenability and beyond that all I want is to make my cold, dead heart…
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Weekend Muvie Revue The Avengers The Avengers has always been a batshit insane goal. It’s part of Marvel’s attempt to copy and paste their entire comic book universe into the world of movies. They’ve gone about it the same way as well. Iron Man isn’t Jon Favreau’s series. He won’t be directing the third one. …
Read MoreDefending the Indefensible
DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE In which Keith defends the things the whole world shits on. MICHAEL BAY Poor, poor Mikey. Michael Bay has taken more abuse than Rihanna’s face from all ends of the spectrum. He’s been called simplistic, derivative, racist, sexist, a rapist of childhoods, a harbinger of the death of film. His very name…
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL *** (out of ****) I literally looked up the word “sequel†on dictionary.com before I started writing this article. I would never do something as cliché as begin a piece of writing with a definition, but I’m not sure we’re using the term “sequel†correctly. Back to the Future, Part…
Read MoreI Need a Hero
Have you noticed anything missing from TV lately? Think hard. What used to be around all the time that is now increasingly tougher to find? It’s simple – we’re running out of heroes. Amazing, isn’t it? We have hundreds of channels, probably thousands of shows and the old-fashioned good guy — a strong, brave soul…
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