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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. "

– Mark Twain

Repulsion

Having read and heard about this film for years, I finally got a chance to sit down and watch Repulsion from beginning to end. Now I can truly understand what all the fuss was about with Polanski as one of THE premiere filmmakers of the Sixties. I can also see why he should have been the ONLY director considered to helm the equally...

Trippin'

If Christopher Guest were to make a horror mockumentary it probably wouldn't look like Trippin', although he would probably appreciate what Director Devi Snively has done with one of the most heinously over used cliche's of the horror genre. We have all seen the group of friends in a van going for a weekend getaway films. Tobe Hooper...

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Christine Ohlman

Every great once in a while a musician strikes a chord in the soul and leaves a permanent mark on one's psyche. The music does more than just make you want to tap your foot or dance, it speaks directly to your subconscious. Christine Ohlman had this effect upon me when I first heard her sing on Saturday Night Live. It was right before a...

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Dante's Inferno

When it comes to inspiration for video games, one doesn't usually look towards 14th century poetry to find the next big hit. Yet, the developers at Visceral Games, creators of Dead Space and The Godfather, apparently thought Dante Alighieri's poem about his symbolic journey through the 9 layers of Hell would be a good concept for a video...

Castlevania: Lord of Shadows

Castlevania has been with gamers since the days of the NES. For over twenty years the gothic action series has pumped out a ton of excellent whip-cracking adventures, chronicling the Belmont Family's battles against Dracula's forces of evil across the centuries. While there have been tons of great games in this series over the decades...

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Andrew Wiest

I first became aware of Andrew when Will insisted that I watch a film called Dead Noon. Will knows I'm a fan of westerns, but only good ones; authentic, with real gun play, real characters, and themes relevant to that genre. Therefore, I'm easily disappointed and tend to balk at the "oh you like westerns, then you have to watch..."...

Obituary

That last statement is both true and false, a sincere lie. The immortal Vincent Price--a talented painter and enthusiastic collector of art--handily epatered the cliché about his area of connoisseurship (I paraphrase from dim memory) "Those who don't know a good deal about art lack the foggiest notion what they like." So, what DO I...

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Chapter 2

Deep in the night the temperature began to drop. As Dan and Lisa exhaled their breath not only fogged, it created crystals around their mouths where they drooled down their pillows. The freezing wind blew in lightly from the opened tent flap and seemed to swirl above them like a tornado that did not touch the ground. White and blue twirled above them in a great big spiral...

Chapter 4:
My Beautiful Shadow

Bill's mind rolled over known items, trying to pull them together into something it could understand and thus mentally file. This new and entirely unparalleled information could only be categorized as a fucked up cross between a giant spider, a saber tooth tiger and the giant octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea. As his mind attempted to take in the reality of ...

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Cry of Love -
Brother

This is the first part in a series that will take a look back to a time when bands hailing from the Southern US created a swell of soul and boogie in the late 1980's and into the mid 1990's. Related in sound to various degrees to Southern Rock bands of a generation before them, this new movement didn't so much copy the sound of classic...

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BUM-HUGGERS

If Congressman Dex Crewley has his way, poverty will soon be a jailable offense. "They (poor people) are dirty," Crewley stated flatly, "dirty and lewd. They make rich people feel uncomfortable and sometimes give rich people a cold. It's got to stop." At a recent "Meet Your Congressman" event, Crewley illustrated his case by bringing along a poor person, a member of the "long-term unemployed" who was fighting off a sinus infection....