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A 3-Minute Trip through India | Gimundo | Good News… Served Daily

http://gimundo.com/videos/view/a-3-minute-trip-through-india/ Fantastic find via my pal Old Jonesy, who recently saw (and smelled) some of these scenes in person. For authentic smell-o-vision India experience you should be smelling; chai masala, burning garbage, sandal wood, cardamom, two stroke exhaust, cow poop, open sewers and jasmine.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie – Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/16/raiders-of-the-lost.html About the only way the “real” Raiders of the Lost Ark could be improved is with some Peter Lorre.

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Movie Review – 4 Little Girls – Still Reeling From the Day Death Came to Birmingham – NYTimes.com

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9500EED71439F93AA35754C0A961958260 I’m no fan of Spike Lee, the movie director, but Spike Lee, the documentarian, is a force to be reckoned with. This is the second of his documentaries that I’ve watched, and it’s the second that has completely devastated me. Four Little Girls introduces us to the victims of the Birmingham church bombing via […]

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Mark Blankenship: In Pixars Up, Two Chairs Mean the World (SPOILERS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-blankenship/in-pixars-up-two-chairs-m_b_211199.html If you’ve seen Up, read this. If you haven’t seen Up, GO SEE UP, then read this.

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Broadcast News (1987) – IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/ Recently, I got a hankering to rewatch Broadcast News. Lo and behold, there was a used (but pristine) copy at a fair price on the Blockbuster shelf this afternoon. I remember it as very good, but my memory is obviously a little fuzzy, ’cause it’s great. So few movies hold up well from first […]

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REAL Wall-E in DisneyLand!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As7UQtKX00c OMG OMG OMG Booking a trip to California – I have a robot to hug.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqL6fI2Jvzk Japanese game show* + Toy Story II = Progressive levels of awesomeness with each successive trademark infringed. Go, Zurg Cannon, go! *Named “What A Cool We Are!” which is really just the awesomeness cherry on top.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGE8wVTvHF0 The classic-est of classic Looney Tunes: Often imitated (often-er by current-era Warner Brothers), never equalled.

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Films : All – NFB

http://www.nfb.ca/explore-by/title/ The National Film Board has opened up what they claim is their entire archive*, and there are certainly some gems worth watching. For those not in the know, the NFB is a very quiet national treasure who are known internationally, too – they’re responsible for the vast majority of Canada’s Oscar haul. The shorts […]

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Elwy Yost – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwy_Yost As a cable avoider, I only get a handful of snow-free channels on the rabbit ears, but thankfully one of these is TVO. I’ve rediscovered my forgotten childhood habit of watching Saturday Night at the Movies and all of the related pre- and post-movie interviews, which are invariably hosted by Elwy Yost. As Canadians, […]

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