BLCKDGRD (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Julius Finsberg, on his death bed, tells his godson Ben Flesh: It's incredible really. Amazing. Who could believe it? You weren't aborted, you didn't end up in a scum bag. You survived the infant mortality stuff. You made it past...
Spectacular Attractions (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Deluge was the debut feature film by a 23 year-old with the enviable name of Felix E. Feist. Sounds like a Marx Brothers pseudonym, but it’s the real name of the son of an MGM sales manager, who had an almost-there career in movies until he switched to TV production in the 50s. Deluge was [...]
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a number of dangerous food recalls in the last few years. But there was a time when food didn’t just attack us after we ingested it. Some foods just cut out the middleman and created wide-scale disasters without contaminating a single colon. 1. The Boston Molasses Flood of [...]
outside is better (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Sitting down almost a week ago to watch 2012 starts a string of movie reviews I hope to start doing regarding popular culture (especially Hollywood) and their fascination with all things apocalyptic. I am trying to develop a rubric for...
the delicious life (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Every few years, when the sun, the moon, and every other star in the universe align in such a way that the 3rd Sunday of the 6th month of the year is exactly the 21st day of said month, we have what we might call an astrological moment of astronomical proportions — my birthday is [...]
The Mamacoke Think Tank (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Entertainment Weekly recently published a column condemning “disaster porn” – the brand of epic destruction cinema that celebrates the survival instincts of a small group of humans…while literally everyone else in the world dies in vain. But I say let the faceless masses remain so, because Roland Emmerich’s disaster movies (Independence Day, The Day [...]
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yes, everyone's favorite lizard conversationalist, Darren Daulton, has a website to promote his metaphysics "starter kit" so everyone can be prepared for falling buildings, tidal waves, and John...
HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
One of the great tragedies of our world is the fact dirigibles went out of fashion after the Hindenberg disaster and rise of the jet engine. There’s a great alternate history book called “The Two Georges”, written by Harry Turtledove and, of all people, Richard Dreyfus (he of the opus belonging to Mr. Holland and [...]
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
by Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam . He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I would like to talk to you today about...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Scientists give many reasons not to worry about predictions based on the Mayan calendar that the world will end in three years.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Bands don't come much heavier -- or louder -- than Shrinebuilder. Performing the first of two shows Saturday at a packed Empty Bottle, the underground, metal supergroup lived up to its name by creating dense, towering walls of sound that assumed the form of spiritual offerings aimed at a higher power.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
In a disaster flick that opened this weekend, supposedly based on prophecies left behind by the Maya, 2012 is the year that California will crash into the Pacific, during a swirl of cataclysmic events that reshapes the world.
reallygoodmagazine.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
2012 (PG-13) (2009) Word on the street has it that it took about $250 million dollars for writer/director Roland Emmerich to “almost end” the world. I say “almost” because there were a few survivors and that just might qualify as a near miss as far as total annihilation goes. In about 158 minutes [...]
Its All About Backlinks (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In “2012,” there’s got to be a morning after, if for no other reason than formulaic disaster epics have to have some measure of hope at the end. And make no mistake: “2012″ is a formulaic disaster epic — to the 10th power. As in, with its characters dodging the non-stop dangers of massive earthquakes, [...]
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