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Let's go surfing now. Everybody's learning how.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RW8...
John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd take Brian Wilson Surfing 1976
YouTube video by SURFSTYLEY4
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June 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Everyone seems to be talking Star Wars Prequels again at the moment so, sure, here it is again, my quasi-legendary essay on them:
filmfreedonia.com/2015/12/02/s...
Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) / Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) / Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
. Director/Coscreenwriter: George Lucas By Roderick Heath The fervent anticipation at the nearing release of Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens carries an unavoidable sensation of déjà vu. …
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May 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Statement by Translucent providing some context…

Written by a lawyer with decades of experience in this area.
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Val Kilmer has died at the age of 65.

The actor was beloved for his roles in Top Gun, Heat, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Batman Forever and more – delivering a poignant final performance in Top Gun: Maverick.

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
Val Kilmer Dies Aged 65
The beloved star of Top Gun, Batman Forever, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and more has passed away. Read more at Empire.
www.empireonline.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Rachel Zegler is being set up to take the fall for a multimillion-dollar loss, and the people setting her up for it are banking on racist, misogynistic hatred on the internet to do the dirty work for them.

So I wrote about it.

www.slashfilm.com/1819440/rach...
Rachel Zegler Is Innocent: Why The Internet Is So Incredibly Wrong About One Of Our Most Promising Actors - SlashFilm
The internet 'discourse' surrounding Snow White star Rachel Zegler has reached a frenzy, and it's time to acknowledge that it's all a load of garbage.
www.slashfilm.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It's Will Eisner's birthday. If you love comics and you've never read A CONTRACT WITH GOD, do yourself a favor and buy it right now. A truly revolutionary work that helped widen my view of what comics can be. But that's true of just about all of Eisner's work.
March 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Hmmm. I would've preferred it if Coppola had told the Razzies people more bluntly to go fuck themselves, but well played.
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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...Vale Gene Hackman. Colossus. A day we knew was coming but hard anyway. In memoriam, some of my essays on his work. First, The French Connection I & II:
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The French Connection (1971) / French Connection II (1975)
Directors: William Friedkin / John Frankenheimer By Roderick Heath It’s 40 years now since The French Connection was released, soon to capture the Best Picture Oscar, set up William Friedkin as a d…
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February 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Gene Hackman has sadly passed away at the age of 95.
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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#rip Gene Hackman
February 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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New at Film Freedonia, by way of farewell to David Lynch, I muse on his journey deep into Hollywood's heart of darkness, Mulholland Drive:
filmfreedonia.com/2025/01/26/m...
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (on-screen title) Director / Screenwriter: David Lynch By Roderick Heath In memoriam: David Lynch 1946-2025 Mulholland Drive famously began life as a pilot for a TV show commissioned…
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January 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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“So much of Lynch’s work amounts to individual entries in a decades-spanning meditation on mortality and what comes after life…Lift every Lynch scene about birth, death, and transformation and string it end-to-end and you’ve have a chapbook of elegies.” www.vulture.com/article/noth...
Beyond the End
David Lynch spent his five-decade film and TV career contemplating life, death, and the indescribable realms in between.
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January 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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R.I.P. David Lynch. Inspiration personified. #icon #legend #eraserhead #mulhollanddrive #bluevelvet

With thanks to Robert Levacy.
January 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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A view of Earth from Saturn.

Credit: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
January 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
January 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was released 78 years ago this week. One of the most beloved of all Christmas movies, and among the most popular films of its star James Stewart, the tale of how it was created is like throwing a lasso round the moon…

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December 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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New at Film Freedonia, I try and fail to come to terms with Francis Ford Coppola's satiric-surrealist-romantic magnum opus, Megalopolis: A Fable:
filmfreedonia.com/2024/11/20/m...
Megalopolis: A Fable (2024)
. Director: Francis Ford CoppolaScreenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola By Roderick Heath Francis Ford Coppola’s status in the pantheon of great directors has long been lodged on a lofty…
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November 20, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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New at Film Freedonia, I look at the ür-text of ambitious modern screen science fiction, Fred Wilcox’s Shakespeare-in-space adventure Forbidden Planet - presented in memoriam for Earl Holliman:
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
. Director: Fred McLeod WilcoxScreenwriter: Cyril HumeBy Roderick Heath In memoriam: Earl Holliman 1928-2024 One of the most legendary of science fiction films, Forbidden Planet manages to be at on…
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December 1, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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And here are our current fav Physical Media people on BlueSky! 💙

Do let us know if you'd like us to add more!! 🤩

#FilmSky #BluRay #PhysicalMedia

go.bsky.app/E2WDmA7
December 7, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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So proud to stand with Guardian & Observer colleagues today to defend the Observer on its 233rd birthday 🎂

Such amazing support from readers, writers, politicians & more. Thank you!

We ❤️ the Obs & we want it back.

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December 4, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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This is a pretty spot on by kurt busiek (i think so)
December 4, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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It made me laugh, so obvious is it. 😁

"The French often have an erroneous view of the realities of unemployment. But the more informed they are, the more their prejudices and criticisms of jobseekers diminish."

It's a major problem of our time: who controls information controls people. 👋
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Seems this place is for good, so here's the Autistic Mode Trailer again-- we're still looking for places to screen. 6 films by Autistic animators. youtu.be/0nbvdOq_Vqc?...
Autistic Mode Trailer 2
YouTube video by Bob Clark
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November 19, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM