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Is Christina Hendricks a "trouper" or "trooper"?
A few days ago, I was looking for the YouTube link to that old viral video of a KTLA morning TV interviewer transforming into a total dweeb after Christina Hendricks, star of the...
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Throwback Thursday: The Dark Knight Rises (with guest blogger Hardeep Aujla...
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved, and then I discuss the movie on the ticket. This time I've gotten Hardeep Aujla, an...
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Throwback Thursday: The Cabin in the Woods (with guest blogger Hardeep Aujla...
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket stub I saved, and then I discuss the movie on the stub. This time I've gotten Hardeep Aujla, an...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "Total Rickall"
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original...
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Throwback Thursday: Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Vixen, "Episode 1"
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original...
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Throwback Thursday: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "The Ricks Must...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original...
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The forbidden dance is Intrada: The Bay Area film score album label turns 30
Jason and the Argonauts (Photo source: DVD Beaver)I had no idea the Oakland film score album label Intrada is actually 30 years old until reading about the label's 30th anniversary reception, which...
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Throwback Thursday: Attack the Block
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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If you want to try coding a blog post on Tumblr, you'd have a much easier...
AFOS has a Tumblr--an infrequently updated one, to be more accurate. I joined Tumblr in 2012 mostly to see if I could attract Tumblr users to either AFOS or the AFOS blog.Since 2012, I've discovered...
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Throwback Thursday: The Muppets (2011)
Usually on Throwback Thursday, I pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket stub I didn't throw away, and then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its...
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That viral pic from Tumblr of Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams isn't real,...
Christina Ricci in Lizzie Borden Took an AxI've stayed away from Asian Twitter ever since two different camps within Asian Twitter came to blows over #CancelColbert--the dumbest-looking campaign...
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Throwback Thursday: Advantageous
Usually on Throwback Thursday, I pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket stub I didn't throw away, and then I discuss the movie on the stub and maybe a little bit of its...
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The original songs from Spy and the Hannibal finale are better Bond themes...
Léa Seydoux in SpectreI'm more of a fan of the music of 007 than the actual 007 movies themselves (although I'm fond of From Russia with Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Living Daylights and...
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Throwback Thursdeath: What We Do in the Shadows
Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is a repost of a TBT piece from March 12, 2015.One of my favorite SNL sketches that Yahoo's "complete SNL archive" currently doesn't carry is a 1989 Dracula sketch...
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What makes a shitty trailer? (Horrible music and comatose-sounding announcer...
Examples of the not-so-shitty work of Mark Woollen's trailer house (Photo source:New Yorkmagazine)Movie trailers are a form of advertising I first became fascinated with in 2005, when I started...
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Throwback Thursdead: Better Off Dead 30th Anniversary Live Read
Usually on Throwback Thursday, I pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket stub I didn't throw away, and then I discuss the movie on the stub and maybe a little bit of its...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week and Last Week: Rick and Morty,...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original...
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Throwback Thursdeath: Kung Fu Killer (2014)
Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is a repost of a TBT piece from May 7, 2015.As a streaming service, Netflix has both merits and drawbacks. Let's get the drawbacks out of the way first: some of...
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