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William Shatner As Stanley Milgram In The 1975 Film “The Tenth Level”

July 25, 2010 – 10:10 am

Stanley Milgram was the psychologist who performed the famous obedience experiments which involved getting normal people to go through with administering (what they thought were) extraordinarily painful shocks to other people out of deference to calm but firm orders from an authority figure.  Now Mind Hacks points our attention to The Tenth Level a fascinating bit [...]

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Key Lime Pie

July 17, 2010 – 9:00 pm

Trevor Jimenez’s animated slice of noir: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Ominous Music Panics Country

July 9, 2010 – 11:41 pm

Ominous Music Heard Throughout U.S. Sends Nation Into Panic Thanks to Becca for the link. Your Thoughts?

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Facebook + David Fincher + Nine Inch Nails = ?

July 5, 2010 – 7:48 am

Trent Reznor has written the score for David Fincher’s The Social Network, which is all about Facebook. While Fincher has not made a film worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Fight Club since he made, um, Fight Club, since he actually made Fight Club, I still get excited whenever he has a [...]

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Austin Pendleton

July 2, 2010 – 7:55 pm

I grew up on The Muppet Movie and loved the character Max.  I was also the kind of kid to pay very close attention to actors and so at 14 geeked out over seeing Austin Pendleton, who played Max, pop up in a hilarious role in My Cousin Vinny. He’s now directing a show called “Disorder” [...]

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“Java 4-Ever”: A Critically Acclaimed Foreign Film About Forbidden Programming

July 1, 2010 – 7:48 pm

H/T: Greg Laden Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: The 100 Greatest Movie Insults Of All Time

July 1, 2010 – 9:03 am

Needless to say, this one is gloriously NSFW (and immensely amusing): Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: A New Pope In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

June 21, 2010 – 12:06 am

The absurdity of religious ceremonial pretensions are clarified a bit: Thanks to Heather for the link. Your Thoughts?

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My Baby Is Black!

June 19, 2010 – 5:44 pm

Apparently this is a vintage 27 second TV spot for an actual 1960′s exploitation film: via postbourgie (which also has a good post on the cop video from earlier). Your Thoughts?

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Slash Guitar Soloing The Godfather Theme

June 13, 2010 – 11:36 pm

Pretty great stuff, already viewed millions of times on YouTube: Your Thoughts?

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