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5-Piece Cartoon Dinner Extra: The Venture Bros., "What Color Is Your Cleansuit?"
Dr. Venture isn't aware that his "Hail to the V" speech is eliciting giggles from the interns."5-Piece Cartoon Dinner" will return in the fall. Pulp's "Like a Friend," which was written and recorded...
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10 existing songs I'd like to needle-drop as fight scene music in a film or...
I finally got around to checking out the 2011 silat flick The Raid after recently hearing Yo, Is This Racist? podcast host Andrew Ti's enthusiastic recommendation of it, in which he said it's a great...
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My last few reviews for Word Is Bond
I joined the Word Is Bond crew in March, and since then, I've been enjoying writing about artists I'm familiar with (Bambu, Adrian Younge) and artists I'm not so familiar with (The Doppelgangaz). Here...
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"'Cause it tastes good": Midnight Run turns 25
On July 20, 1988, Universal released Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin's Midnight Run. It didn't make much of a splash at the box office--although it was popular enough to spawn a series of Midnight...
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5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (02/27/2013): Bravest Warriors, Archer, Out There,...
I keep misidentifying Out There as Over There, that Gulf War show that starred Sticky Fingaz from Onyx. What I really need to do before writing is... cram! Duh duh duh, duh duh duh. Let the boys be...
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5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (03/06/2013): Archer, Gravity Falls, Bob's Burgers,...
Kitchen Confidential tanked as a network sitcom because nobody in the kitchen was allowed to curse like Anthony Bourdain did in his original book and during his guest shot on Archer. A kitchen without...
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5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (03/13/2013): Bravest Warriors, Archer, Out There,...
Here we see Archer at his latest assignment, which is to sabotage the making of yet another "Harlem Shake" video.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most...
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5-Piece Cartoon Dinner (03/20/2013): Archer, Green Lantern, Young Justice,...
Lana puts a ring on it. And by "it," I mean her sausage finger.Every Wednesday in "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner," I dine on five of the week's most noteworthy animated shows. The episodes are reviewed in the...
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Can a really dumb, two-year-old tweet get you bounced off the "AFOS Prime"...
(Photo source: The Playlist)I never really cared for Skrillex's music, but I thought a couple of the score cues that the EDM DJ/producer composed for Spring Breakers were decent (the film also features...
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Uwe Boll's essential film list
Respected and controversial filmmaker Spike Lee, who directed several favorite movies of mine (Do the Right Thing, Inside Man), also teaches film at his alma mater NYU. At the start of each semester,...
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Who's that voice on AFOS?
(Portions of the following were culled from a series of "Who's That Voice on AFOS?" posts from July 13-17, 2010.)The new indie film In a World is distinctive for being the first comedy set against the...
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Radio that's far more entertaining than my pathetic excuse for an Internet...
(Photo source: AMN Radio)And now, a rundown of the "Radio radio" link roll that's located on the right side of this blog.AMN RadioL.A.'s Radio Korea, or as stand-up and Walter & PK Show co-host...
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5-Piece Cartoon Dinner Extra: Back to the Futurama past (with former Futurama...
Tonight, Futurama, which premiered on March 28, 1999 on Fox, airs its final episode on Comedy Central, the network that--to the delight of fans of the animated cult favorite and its direct-to-video,...
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"Conan the Barbarian on a loop": Which film or TV score albums have helped us...
Film score music-wise, novelist Junot DÃaz is all about Team Coco--the barbarian Coco, not the string-dancing Coco.In a recent interview, Junot DÃaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief...
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Hayao Miyazaki's retirement means no more sublime moments of animation like...
I've been co-writing an article about YouTube videos that have fused anime footage with hip-hop joints (the piece will turn up over at Word Is Bond). While working on that, I binge-watched on Hulu the...
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Pop that brefnish: Time to look at hip-hop and R&B's immense love for the...
The effects of brefnishNah Right posted last week a lengthy and interesting interview with jazz pianist Bob James, one of the most sampled musicians in hip-hop. What started out as a contentious...
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In 2008, I sort of predicted Breaking Bad would blow up like Gus Fring
Tonight, AMC's Breaking Bad ends its run as one of TV's most genuinely nail-biting and nerve-wracking hour-long shows/trending topics, so I've unearthed from January 23, 2008 the review of the Breaking...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: American Dad, "Steve and Snot's...
The return of "5-Piece Cartoon Dinner" here at AFOS: The Blog marks a change in format (the discussion of five of the week's first-run animated shows is being pared down to just the week's most...
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"Welcome to hell, motherfuckers!": Tune in to "Buckets of Score" on Halloween...
On Thursday, October 31, from 5pm to 11pm, AFOS will once again be streaming original music that's suited for Halloween. The "Buckets of Score" block will be full of score cues from movies like the...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: South Park, "World War Zimmerman"
(Photo source: South Park Archives)Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a...
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