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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

July 25th, 2010
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What I watched a few nights ago: “Inception,” the brilliant new mind-bender from “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan # I had a very Joseph Gordon-Levitt weekend. Watched “Inception” on Friday and hosted a screening of “Brick” on Saturday. # Hi, folks! I’m tweeting from Comic Con. Currently in Hall H waiting ...

“Run, Forrest, run!”

May 17th, 2010
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You’ll race to rent these superb track-and-field classics Today’s blog post comes to us courtesy of former Tribune staffer Jay Thompson, now a marketing coordinator at Cuesta College. Read on for his favorite movies about running and runners. I’m a frustrated runner. And I g0t a little more frustrated these days — ...

In defense of slow zombies

November 7th, 2008
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Simon Pegg to Hollywood: Zombies don’t run! Simon Pegg knows a thing or two about zombies. In “Shaun of the Dead,” Pegg and his best mate (Nick Frost) fought off hordes of hungry undead. In “Hot Fuzz,” the duo took on an entire village of evil English villagers. Pegg has even ...

Zombies are fun

October 8th, 2008
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“Shaun of the Dead” promises plenty of gore, giggles Legend has it that “Shaun of the Dead,” the brilliant feature-film debut of director Edgar Wright, was the first “rom zom com.” That is, a romantic zombie comedy. The holy triumvirate of heartfelt personal growth, buddy-movie style laughs, and hordes of undead corpses ...