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Top 20 off the beaten path movies of the 2000s

By ~LS~ On December 31, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Movies, Pop Culture

These are not my top ten movies of the decade. I don’t think I could pick such a list. I’m glad it’s not a job requirement. The following list includes movies that I thought were different and interesting. Not all were critically acclaimed, either. Still, something about each one stuck with me over the decade. I’m an action
pic junkie and some of these are action pics, but they are not your standard shoot ‘em up style. They have something unique about them. Not all the films listed here were overlooked, but many were. I did not include major movies. The list is in no particular order.

1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

A strange man with an amazing sense of smell learns how to make perfume and then murders women in search of the elusive perfect scent. It’s a disturbing, dirty, compelling movie. Alan [...]

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Food, Inc.

By ~LS~ On August 5, 2009 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Food Politics, Movies

In Tampa last week, I saw the movie “Food, Inc.” at the Tampa Theatre. The film made me feel sick to my stomach. After seeing it, I don’t want to eat anything ever again. Sort of like I don’t want to /buy/ anything ever again. Of course, I -will- eat, and I -will- shop, but I’m guilt-ridden about it. Food, Inc., was produced by Eric Schlosser, of Fast Food Nation fame. The film is about corporate farming, the food industry, and its effects on animals, humans, and then environment. I learned some harrowing things about the food industry by watching this film. For instance,

1. Farmers no longer own their seeds. Seeds are now intellectual property owned by genetic engineering corporations. Farmers who do not use corporate seeds can be sued if any genetically engineered seeds end up in their crops. Seeds [...]

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Twilight

By ~LS~ On October 24, 2008 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Age, Geek, Generations, Movies, Music, Pop Culture

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The Dark Knight

By ~LS~ On July 19, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Movies, Pop Culture

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Wall-E

By ~LS~ On July 6, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Capitalism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Movies, Pop Culture

I liked the movie Wall-E. I didn’t love it, the way so many people do. But I liked it. I thought the message about the environment, consumption, and technology was an obvious one. One that a six year old and maybe even a four year old would get. But Frank Rich of the NYT waxes rhapsodic about the movie in the context of this year’s political campaign. He writes:

One of the great things about art, including popular art, is that it can hit audiences at a profound level beyond words. That includes children. The kids at “Wall-E” were never restless, despite the movie’s often melancholy mood and few belly laughs. They seemed to instinctually understand what “Wall-E” was saying; they didn’t pepper their chaperones with questions along the way. At the end they clapped their small hands. What they applauded was not some banal cartoonish triumph of good [...]

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Link-o-mania – A Geektastic Handful

By ~LS~ On June 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Humor, Jon Stewart, Movies, Obligatory Links, Silliness, Weird Stuff

I cleaned up my bookmarks today. I had too many to keep track of. Mostly they were things I wanted to blog about but never got around to. I had a handful of links that I don’t want cluttering my bookmarks, but that I didn’t want to delete. Mostly cute stuff. So here’s some miscellaneous links:

1. Marc Bousquet’s syllabus for Internet Culture and Information Society. I don’t think I could teach the cyberculture class again. I’m so out of it. I refuse to give up my text-based muds in favor of MMORPGs. I don’t particularly like the social networking. At least I blog (occasionally). Bousquet’s syllabus has them view the Daily Show’s report on Second Life. It’s worth a laugh.

2. An open letter to Star Trek director JJ Abrams. This is a list of things he should NOT do as he makes the Star Trek [...]

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