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Worst Words of 2014
Another year has passed, a year that brought us such spectacular highs as fried chicken corsages, movies about zombie beavers, and the Norwegian curling team’s Olympic Games uniforms. And as you are no doubt aware, as mandated by international law, it is illegal to have a blog and not do some sort of ‘best of’ […]
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Harry Potter and the Chinese Knockoffs
Harry Potter and Platform Nine and Three-Quarters This book is either completely uninspired or a work of incomparable literary genius. Essentially, it’s the first book in the real J.K. Rowling series, only written entirely in first person. Very avant-garde. The natural progression from here is to translate the story into interpretative dance. Actually, I’m sure […]
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Ten of the Weirdest, Most Distracting, and Accidentally Funny Movie Extras
The other day I caught a bit of The Dark Knight Rises on TV, trying to understand Bale’s weird voice, and wondering when Batman would lose his. Then I spotted something in the background: an extra doing something accidentally hilarious and stealing the scene. I YouTubed it later to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, […]
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The 30 Best Movie Songs of the Last 40 Years – Part III
5. Stayin’ Alive, by The Bee Gees, from Saturday Night Fever (1977) The Bee Gees wrote a number of tracks for the film, Saturday Night Fever, including the hits More Than a Woman and Night Fever. However Stayin’ Alive is probably the most iconic, a high tempo disco hit that physically causes listeners to strut. […]
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The 30 Best Movie Songs of the Last 40 Years – Part II
11. Blaze of Glory, by Jon Bon Jovi, from Young Guns II (1990) Bon Jovi is one of the biggest rock bands ever, but lead singer Jon Bon Jovi has only ever had one number one US single. That single is Blaze of Glory, from the western film Young Guns II. Young Guns starred a […]
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