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Apparently I’m not alone…

Just saw this: "More than 400,000 American homes have cut the cord and ditched their cable and satellite pay-TV services since the start of 2012. The figure includes 169,000 subscribers shed by Time Warner Cable last quarter, marking the service provider's tenth consecutive quarter of customer losses. It also includes the 52,000 net subscribers…
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Interesting article on this summer’s movies…

Basically built around the question of which were successful enough to prompt sequels. But there are signs of Hollywood's ongoing structural problems here. As noted in the article, Universal had three successful movies (successful enough to prompt sequels). However, the failure of Battleship* ate up a lot of those profits, just as John Carter…
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Monster of the Day #530
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Monster of the Day #530

For some reason, women's focus groups did not find the new Beauty and the Beast TV show was romantic as the old one.
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: Creature of the Walking Dead (1964)
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Rock Baker’s Video Cheese: Creature of the Walking Dead (1964)

"A doctor reanimates the corpse of his mad scientist grandfather, THEN figures out it was a bad idea!" Even for the dedicated genre movie fan like myself, Jerry Warren movies are often a challenge to watch, and few of them warrant repeat viewings. His actual 'movie' movies are better than his imports, although I…
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Monster of the Day #528
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Monster of the Day #528

This made less domestically than that awful remake of When a Stranger Calls, and that was following the Spider-Man movies. I don't get it.
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Tuesdays with Lorre: My Favorite Brunette (1947)
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Tuesdays with Lorre: My Favorite Brunette (1947)

[Note the highly misleading poster art. Hope never wears anything like he is pictured here, and Dorothy Lamour certainly never appears in a bathing suit. And I seriously have no friggin' idea what those other ladies are supposed to represent.] Bob Hope was, save for W. C. Fields, the greatest solo film comic of…
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Who Watches The Watch?

The opening paragraph of the Chicago Tribune review of this film mentions the awkwardness of releasing a film about a neighborhood watch following the Trayvon Martin shooting. "Timing is everything," Michael Phillips wrote. (He then ties in the Aurora shooting in the third paragraph. Review the film, ass. You're not a sociologist, you're a…
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