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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 ...

Goodbye, guinea pigs

April 29th, 2010
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We bid farewell to Guinea Pig Theatre, created by true film fan Kyle Starks As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. So it’s with a heavy heart that I bid farewell to one of my favorite forms of online entertainment: Guinea Pig Theatre. Kyle Starks’ brilliant blog uses ...

Free Comic Book Day

April 28th, 2010
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San Luis Obispo store celebrates Free Comic Book Day With cool comics online, great graphic novels on the shelves and a slew of superhero movies in the works, it’s a good time to be a comic book fan. This Saturday, Captain Nemo Comics & Games in San Luis Obispo will be handing ...

Making movie posters an art

October 9th, 2009
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Movie posters have the potential to become an art form once more  Back in the day, movie posters were works of art. Designed and created with meticulous care, they featured stylish, stunning images of careworn cowpokes, grizzled soldiers, swinging hepcats and square-jawed super-spies. Samurai sparred. Terrifying monsters menaced beautiful damsels in distress. ...

Say It Loud: Geeky and Proud

July 23rd, 2009
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  At Comic-Con International, the geeks have inherited the Earth Yesterday, “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon dedicated a portion of his opening monologue to Comic-Con International, “the biggest virgin … I’s sorry, comic book convention in the world.” That’s Fallon’s joke, not mine. Fallon jokingly dubbed Comic-Con as “Asthmafest ‘09″ and described the first-ever ...

More Oscars than ever?

June 24th, 2009
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 Number of Best Picture nominees is doubling, Academy says Oh Oscar! Here’s a shocker. As a number of news agencies have reported, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is doubling the number of films that can be nominated for the coveted Best Picture category. Earlier this year, five movies vied ...

“Batman” on the big screen

March 24th, 2009
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“Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?” No? Well have you ever seen “Batman”? Before “The Dark Knight,” before “Iron Man,” before “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” there was 1989’s “Batman.” The first modern superhero blockbuster. Spawned from the weird, wild mind of Tim Burton, “Batman” combined killer action with fanboy frenzy. Sure, ...

Who’s cooler? Darth Vader or Hannibal Lecter?

March 5th, 2009
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Guides to the greatest movie characters, most awesome actors and more Isn’t the Internet great? Every time I venture into the wilds of cyberspace, I find something that makes me giggle, guffaw or coo in awe. Unfortunately, I find these links on such a regular basis that my “Bookmarks” tab has become ...

Why Oscar snubs hurt

February 17th, 2009
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Oscar the Grouch: Why does the Academy snub good films? It happens like clockwork. Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences releases its list of Oscar nominees. And every year, the nation’s film critics and cinephiles whine and moan about how the Academy has once again passed over true genius ...

It’s lucky 13 for “Benjamin Button”

January 22nd, 2009
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  “Benjamin Button” leads the pack with 13 Oscar nominations The heavyweights were out in force this morning as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its picks for 2009. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” picked up a nomination for Best Picture as well as nods for director David ...