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Middle-earth Monday 59: Dale
November 24, 2014

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature! Middle-earth being the land of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place. So, why not […]

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Minor Key Monday 59: Kavinsky – Nightcall
November 17, 2014

I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”.  Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like.  No, not [just] Black …

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Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 59: Kampfar – Mellom Skogkledde Aaser (1997)
November 15, 2014

Kampfar is one of those second wave Norwegian black metal bands that I thought I was totally over. The kind of stuff that I listen to and think "yeah, this kind of sounds like Immortal, …

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My Favorite Movies 59: Born Yesterday (George Cukor, 1950)
November 10, 2014

George Cukor was always known as a "woman's" director.  I was never quite sure whether he was called that just because he directed The Women, because he chose screenplays that attempted to address issues of …

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Mailbag Monday 66
November 3, 2014

Want to have your pressing questions answered by Isley Unruh himself? Send all queries HERE, and I will get to them as soon as I can on a future Mailbag Monday! Welcome back to Mailbag Monday!  On …

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Monthly Movie Reviews – October, 2014
November 1, 2014

Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in October. Stats Movies watched – 7 Movies that were new to me – 2 Number of years since I last saw Beetlejuice – 26 Monthly Masterpieces – Rosemary's Baby, Playtime, Citizen …

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My Favorite Movies 58: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
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