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Re:Double features
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"I watched Circle of Iron, which I liked, and the next Sunday at the end of "At the Movies" (if that's what it was called), Sparky the Wonder Dog jumped up onto the couch with Ebert and Siskel so they could announce their "dogs of the week." When Siskel named Circle of Iron, I jumped out of my seat in outrage. " [More]
Re:Manda Bala
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"Young men travel to a foreign country to recontextualize political corruption and street violence in Cinemascope, while explaining why the result isn't docuporn. My thoughts. " [More]
Put Down That Frog and Step Away
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"Before dealing with the end of the world as we know it, which this movie does not explicitly mention but which is lurking there in the unspoken background - before dealing with that, it being a pet peeve of mine, let me mention first an equally annoying pet peeve: many podcasters, the Spout podcasters occasionally among them, use the expression "begs the question" when they actually mean "raises the question." This error of diction has become so common in the U.S. today that it's probably useless to even mention it here, but since I heard it again on FilmCouch recently, let me remind those who might be unaware of it that "begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which an argument is assumed to be true without evidence other than the argument itself. Thank you. Meanwhile, back in the day, if you hated documentaries but had to write a paper on one, you could head down to Ninth and Trawler and catch The Nudist Story at the Jewel Box. The Nudist Story is the film where eve ... " [More]
Re:Foreign Film Name Game
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"toto le moko not to be confused with the more famous pepe le moko. " [More]
Re:Double features
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"I lived down the street from the Big Sky drive in in Phoenix. You could pay a dollar and walk in and sit in the seats in front of the snack bar. I especially remember the Steve Reeves Hercules movies. " [More]
Re:Double features
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"back in '82 i slipped out of work one afternoon, over to a small two-screen cinema in the neighborhood. there were only three customers. i had my coke and popcorn. and after watching these two, some extra testosterone: conan the barbarianroad warrior " [More]
Re:Best Film in Which Satan App ...
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"Jack Nicholson has a good over-the-top angry scene as Satan in The Witches of Eastwick. De Niro has a creepy Satan bit in Angel Heart.Little NIcky: funny movie. " [More]
Re:Sun Dogs
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"man bites dog. my thoughts. " [More]
Woof
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"Before beginning this review, a tip of the hat to sun dogs, aka parhelia, those common bright circular spots on a solar halo. Sun dogs are "an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds."Also, a little love for the Arizona Sundogs in the Central Hockey League and for a few favorite dog movies: snow dogs, rain dogs, desert dogs, moon dogs, straw dogs, stray dogs, reservoir dogs, dish dogs, lawn dogs, dead dogs, rabid dogs, chilly dogs, sleeping dogs, miracle dogs, road dogs, old dogs, dealing dogs, tap dogs, angry dogs, war dogs, catwalk dogs, deck dogs, top dogs, lost dogs, trinity dogs, urinoir dogs, bad dogs, barking dogs, fence dogs, devil dogs, gift dogs, good dogs, hot dogs, performing dogs, sea dogs, restricted dogs, society dogs, trained dogs, tokyo dogs, training dogs, wild dogs, zombie dogs, prairie dogs, and a dog's dog.And to note that Kingst ... " [More]
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Double Feature
"I didn't see it but I imagine you can lump Rocky 6 in there...did they wheel him to the ring? [/quote]I liked Rocky Balboa (Rocky 6). 75% on the tomato meter and 7.5 imdb, so I wasn't alone.For a guy 61 years old, he was pretty ripped. Lot of HGH and work done, but he made me believe. " [More]
Re:Africa Unite
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"can ganja save africa? my thoughts. " [More]
Can Ganja Save Africa?
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"AFRICA UNITETHE FILMIn 2005, the Bob Marley and Rita Marley Foundations organized "Africa Unite," a series of events to be held in Ethiopia. Nominally created to posthumously celebrate Bob Marley's 60th birthday, Africa Unite was meant to encourage and nurture unity between nations and peoples on the African continent and to inspire self-sufficiency and world consciousness in African youth. As an annual event, it has continued: Ghana (2006); South Africa (2007); Jamaica (2008, from February 1 to 21). (http://africa-unite.org/site/ component/option,com_frontpage /Itemid,1/)The film "Africa Unite" is meant to show, and does show, the coming together of peace-minded folks from 40 to 60 African countries (reports vary), for a series of workshops, including three days of African student-delegate dialog sessions, meetings, and a celebratory concert. Marley's wife, mother, five sons, and sundry grandchildren flew to Addis Ababa from Jamaica for the occasion, t ... " [More]