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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Life without Death
I watched this Frank Cole film with Grant a few months back at the National Archives and it still haunts me. It’s a Canadian documentary about a relatively young man who decides to cross the Sahara Desert alone and despite … Continue reading
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Zombie Battles Shark
The title explains itself, but the zombie watching experience is not complete until you’ve seen this clip from Lucio Fulci’s classic film Zombi 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSN2s8FY8Q
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Runstedler’s Special Review: Winter’s Bone
Winter’s Bone, the film adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name, is an engaging, resonating film that won one of the Grand Jury Prizes at the Sundance Film Festival last year, and emerges as one of 2010’s finest … Continue reading
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Runstedler’s Special Music Review: Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty by Falkenbach
In light of my review for Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Valhalla Rising, I’ve been listening to Viking pagan metal constantly. Falkenbach emerge as one of the top contenders in the ever-growing German pagan metal scene. Their 2003 release Ok Nefna … Continue reading
Elton John’s Darker Side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX0v_bcOHH4 Here’s a compilation of some of Elton John’s less memorable performances. Spinal Tap, anyone? My top three in film for 2010: 1. Inception 2. Black Swan 3. Agora
Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Valhalla Rising
Technically, it hasn’t been released on DVD yet, but Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film Valhalla Rising is so awesome that I can’t resist talking about it. Known in his Danish homeland for the ultraviolent Pusher crime trilogy, Refn has already … Continue reading
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Lost Season 6 DVD Offers Exclusive Epilogue to the Series
I’m a huge Lost fan, and I watched every episode from season one to season six. When the grand finale aired last year, I was one of the diehard Losties who were extremely unsatisfied and disappointed with the ending of … Continue reading
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Yale University Uploads American Literature Lectures
Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece Blood Meridian gets its academic dues in one of Yale University’s uploaded lectures for its American Novel Since 1945 course (ENG 291). The professor doesn’t seem as zealous about the novel as I am, but she definitely … Continue reading
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Buzz Aldrin and “The Rocket Experience”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUeGRpPzgw We all know Buzz Aldrin as the second man on the Moon. Did you also know that he raps? It’s either incredibly witty or incredibly bad…or maybe a bit of both?
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Alejandro Jodorowsky and the L’Incal Series
Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean acid Western director of cult favourites El Topo and Holy Mountain, collaborated with famous comic book artist Moebius in the ’80s and beyond to create one of the most memorable science fiction comic series ever conceived: … Continue reading
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