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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Campus MovieFest finale! All Bay Area peeps must come!

Yes, this is what I've been doing for the last two months. Check that, fool.


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And on October 20 at the California Theatre in San Jose, we have the Campus MovieFest GRAND FINALE, showcasing the best student films from UC Berkeley, SJSU, Sonoma State, Stanford and Santa Clara University.

And it's hosted by Mayim Bialik from "Blossom." How sweet is that?

http://www.campusmoviefest.com/finale/index.html

--MG

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

You're welcome.


http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegoodgerman/large.html

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Friday, October 06, 2006

For all you cult film sluts.

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/53530

(To be updated with text later.)

Do NOT see the "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" this weekend.

Why, you ask? The first of the remakes was so damn good.

Well, I received this myspace message from a trusted friend from high school, and I have no reason to distrust this statement.

From Mike:

"Marcus! i know this is random as hell, but i figured you'd be a good person to spread the word among your friends and neighbors - tell anyone you know who's planning to see TCM: The Beginning tomorrow that Andrew Birnyarski (leatherface, as you undoubtedly already know) is - in real life and very factually - a multiple rapist of young girls, including someone I know very closely. I know that's probably not enough to dissuade many from paying money to go see it - I would be first in line otherwise, and it's gonna be very painful not to see it - but just so people know if they should happen to not want to support it cuz of that.

Weird how I have these really fucking random connections to both Leatherfaces, huh?

- mike"

(His connection to Gunnar Hansen, the first of the Leatherfaces in the 70s, is that he and his father met at a party years ago.)

So while I clearly cannot tell you whether or not this is true, I feel as if I must pass it along. Hell, I wasn't planning on seeing it anyway.

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Shomebody shave me

Last Thursday, "Smallville" rocked the house with the premiere of its sixth season. It did, problematically, clean up a few plot strands far too nicely to maintain the staggering amount of tension built in the season five finale, where BrainIAC shut off the world's power, Chloe shared a lovely kiss with Clark before she and Lionel Luthor were taken away by the angry Metropolis mob, Lois and Martha were in a plane unknowingly headed for the North Pole piloted by a BrainIAC copy, Lex was turned into a superbeing and inhabited by the spirit of Zod and Clark was thrust into the Phantom Zone. (Take that, "Superman Returns.")

Now, rumors are floating that the show will wrap itself up by the end of the seventh season, which has already been given the greenlight.

But what happens after Clark and the gang get their butts out of their little Kansas town of krypto-freaks and dodgy police enforcement?

Behold, the reason I love rabid fans.


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