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67th Primetime Emmy Awards Show Winners

Posted on September 27, 2015 by michaelsoler

The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards aired Sunday September 20th on the FOX network. This years host was former Saturday Night Live alum and current star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine Andy Samberg. While his opening monologue may have been somewhat …

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Season 4 of Crime Drama Series ‘Longmire’ Debuts on Netflix

Posted on September 17, 2015 by michaelsoler

On September 10th the fourth season of Longmire was released in its entirety on the streaming service Netflix. The western flavored crime drama, based on mystery novels by best-selling author Craig Johnson, is a newly acquired property picked up …

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Hilarious Vampire Mock Doc ‘What We Do in the Shadows’

Posted on September 13, 2015 by michaelsoler

Imagine Count Orlok, Dracula, Lestat, and Edward Cullen inhabiting an apartment together while the crew of The Real World records their daily lives. If you can wrap your mind around that concept, what you have is the film What We …

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“Sultan of Slash” Horror Director Wes Craven Dies at 76

Posted on September 3, 2015 by michaelsoler

Wes Craven once stated that, “Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.”

And Craven ought to know, because he is the man responsible for releasing decades worth of remarkably macabre cinematic terror. This week we sadly lost the prolific …

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The Fun Will Never End

Posted on December 1, 2012 by michaelsoler

Well, looks like another semester is coming to an end and this will be our last posting.  So instead of focusing on something that we’ve discussed in class or rambling, I wanted to blog about something that I just find …

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Creepy Creepers Creeping Creepily

Posted on November 12, 2012 by michaelsoler

Social media is turning us all into creepers, and I use the term creeper lightly.  I used to hate that word.  It just sounds like something a valley girl would say: “Oh em gee, Josh is just like, such a …

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George Lucas, You’re a Crazy Genius

Posted on November 6, 2012 by michaelsoler

Read any website dedicated to nerd culture (unrealitymag.com is a good one), and you’ll no doubt come across a litany of hatred spewed towards George Lucas, particularly in regards to his botched mishandling of Star Wars Episodes I-III and …

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Our Eyes Are Bigger than Our Stomachs

Posted on October 31, 2012 by michaelsoler

The web is bad for us.  I realize that now.  We sit and wish for an open web that bobs about with the easy freedom of open communication, the ebb and flow of the World Wide Web, but at the …

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Beyond Good and Evil

Posted on October 24, 2012 by michaelsoler

You know what’s a pretty evil company? Monsanto. And according to Forbes EA is the most evil American company of the year (and not, oh, AIG or something). But Google? Eh, I just can’t buy it. There are far too …

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Ground Control to Major Tom, or: Why the Hell is this Taking So Long?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by michaelsoler

This past Sunday millions (maybe less and understandably so, I’m just ballparking it) tuned in to see Felix Baumgartner jump from space.  Well, not technically space, but from a balloon hoisted capsule that was about 25 miles shy of space …

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