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This is the official release of the kvlt Pagan Necrofolk band Unruh's debut ep Grim Midwinter Necrohymns. Unruh supports the destruction of all creative endeavors and as such, you may steal this album HERE. Moralist …
Hey everyone, welcome to finals week! What's that, you aren't in college anymore? You didn't choose to avoid the real world by hiding in graduate school? Well too bad, it's finals week anyway! So today, …
Not only is Howard Hawks one of my all time favorite directors, but I also love private eye films like Marie Antoinette loved cake. Thus it is not easily that I will admit that 1946's …
It's a secret to no one that I've always been a bit of a Lord of the Rings fan. I mean, hell, between my book collection, the 15 or so Tolkien themed board games I …
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. My storied past …
Welcome back to Internet Meme Monday! What is a meme you say? Well, as I understand it, a meme is similar to a gene, except instead of passing on genetic information it passes on cultural …
Everyone has probably heard at one point or another that they resemble some celebrity. Well, the question of which celebrity I most resemble has become a bit more important lately when I learned of the …
Everyone knows that I was a particularly vehement opponent of the Lord of the Rings movies. My thoughts on adaptations are well publicized and they basically amount to the unyielding law that it is unconscionable to …
The "gangster film" is a true American creation. There were of course many early foreign films with elements of "crime" in them (Feuillade's Les Vampires, or Lang's Dr. Mabuse to name just a few), but the …
So, I watched the usual random assortment of movies over my Christmas break. Looking back, I realized that 8 of them naturally fell into pairs, both thematically and in that one was an old standard …