Boy you people are going to like the new horror film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. One part horror movie, one part mockumentary and two parts awesome. Director Scott Glosserman and his main star Nathan Baesel have taken the conventions of 70s and 80s slasher horror and taken it to a place that even Scream creator Kevin Williamson would fear to tread....
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Oscar Nunez is best known as Oscar Martinez the recently outed accountant on NBCs The Office. But before getting on that hit show, Nunez honed his improvisational skills in both New York and Los Angeles improv troupes and appeared in episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Reno 911. Nunez co-created, stars and executive produces the new improvised sitcom, Halfway Home. Nunez plays a former homosexual...
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zoetica:
Oscar Nunez is best known as Oscar Martinez the recently outed accountant on NBCs The Office. But before getting on that hit show, Nunez honed his improvisational skills in both New York and Los Angeles improv troupes and appeared in episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Reno 911. Nunez co-created,...
Many critics and fans are calling the Korean horror movie, The Host, the greatest monster movie ever made. Thats not just hyperbole, The Host is fast, fun but still manages to sneak in some very astute social commentary on the side of both the Korean and US governments. The plot is simple, a creature was created due to a US military pathologist [played by Scott...
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cogito_sum:
Wow, amazing.
I just checked this movie out a couple weeks earlier over at aznV.TV
I was quite refreshing, and hilarious
I Love Korean Movies, They're the Best
I just checked this movie out a couple weeks earlier over at aznV.TV
I was quite refreshing, and hilarious
I Love Korean Movies, They're the Best
evan:
id hit it
i dont want anything new
lostlucy:
tired of consumerism, or are you expressing an interest in used goods? 
300 is such a blast. There will be no other movie ever, that is able to combine killing children, stabbing half dead Persians and guys with swords for arms in such a cool way. Gerard Butler has teamed up with visionary director Zack Snyder to bring the ultimate historical graphic novel by Frank Miller to life. Butler plays King Leonidas, who declares war on the...
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ecto_cooler:
Meh. Whatever you may have read in Wikipedia entries or seen in 300, the truth is Sparta was *not* a superpower, and that includes the period before the second Persian invasion.
Sparta was a village. It was not a capital of Lakedaemon. There were Spartiates -- Peers, Similars, Equals, homoioi -- and there were perokoi and helots. Those people did not enjoy the same status as homoioi, and Sparta was not their "capital." And, according to the laws of Lycurgus, Spartiates could not possess money, so you're incorrect about "tribute." There was no central acropolis with a state stockpile of talents. There were only military guarantees. This is documented in the original historical texts and backed up by the scholarly work of Cartledge, Victor Davis Hanson, etc.
Again, you're confusing your time periods. The period of Spartan hegemony was AFTER the Peloponnesian War, not before it. Sparta did not conquer Athens before Thermopylae, and it only conquered Athens with Persian financial backing in order to build a fleet, thus Lysandros and the naval victory at Aegospotami.
Lysandros deposed? When? He was killed in battle after the Peloponnesian War, not deposed.
And it's not opinion that Sparta was weakened by its dependence on the helots, it is fact. That is the major, enduring reason why Sparta could not extend its military strength beyond the Hellespont, and in fact much beyond the Peloponnese. This is why the "Archidaman War" in the early years of the war with Athens was a failure -- the military had to be withdrawn seasonally, out of fear that a long campaign would spell ruin for the city-state back home if a revolt was sparked.
It's also the single biggest reason for the downfall of Sparta later in its history, when Epaminondas liberated the helots.
The bottom line is, Thermopylae set the bar ridiculously high and Sparta never lived up to it after that. It was a village and a local power, nothing more. If Sparta had the population of an Athens or a Rome -- impossible because of Lycurgan law -- it *might* have been on par with what we consider a superpower today, but it was just a village of a few thousand people, constantly dwindling.
Sparta was a village. It was not a capital of Lakedaemon. There were Spartiates -- Peers, Similars, Equals, homoioi -- and there were perokoi and helots. Those people did not enjoy the same status as homoioi, and Sparta was not their "capital." And, according to the laws of Lycurgus, Spartiates could not possess money, so you're incorrect about "tribute." There was no central acropolis with a state stockpile of talents. There were only military guarantees. This is documented in the original historical texts and backed up by the scholarly work of Cartledge, Victor Davis Hanson, etc.
Again, you're confusing your time periods. The period of Spartan hegemony was AFTER the Peloponnesian War, not before it. Sparta did not conquer Athens before Thermopylae, and it only conquered Athens with Persian financial backing in order to build a fleet, thus Lysandros and the naval victory at Aegospotami.
Lysandros deposed? When? He was killed in battle after the Peloponnesian War, not deposed.
And it's not opinion that Sparta was weakened by its dependence on the helots, it is fact. That is the major, enduring reason why Sparta could not extend its military strength beyond the Hellespont, and in fact much beyond the Peloponnese. This is why the "Archidaman War" in the early years of the war with Athens was a failure -- the military had to be withdrawn seasonally, out of fear that a long campaign would spell ruin for the city-state back home if a revolt was sparked.
It's also the single biggest reason for the downfall of Sparta later in its history, when Epaminondas liberated the helots.
The bottom line is, Thermopylae set the bar ridiculously high and Sparta never lived up to it after that. It was a village and a local power, nothing more. If Sparta had the population of an Athens or a Rome -- impossible because of Lycurgan law -- it *might* have been on par with what we consider a superpower today, but it was just a village of a few thousand people, constantly dwindling.
jennifer_:
I can see why the Iranian government is so annoyed by this - it's a thinly veiled metaphor for America and Iran that ridicules one of the biggest figures in Iranian culture and history. But, I don't like the Iranian government, so this didn't really bother me.
I thought it was a good movie ... although the story still wasn't as cool as Zulu/Rorke's Drift.
I thought it was a good movie ... although the story still wasn't as cool as Zulu/Rorke's Drift.
The landscape of standup comedy on television has taken a surprising turn in the past few years. People like Artie Lange, Patton Oswalt and Paul Mooney are doing these amazing standup shows and are videotaping them in a very cool verite way. In the wake of the success of The Comedians of Comedy, Zach Galifianakis and director/editor Michael Blieden have teamed up again...
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asphalteyes:
excellent interview... i love the way his voice comes in sort of intense flurry... so it was transcribed well into text..
bartelsond:
he is from my home town lol, I went to school with hem! He was fun then and funny now bring a realness to show bis
The story behind what inspired Jean-Claude Brisseaus new film, Exterminating Angels, is nearly as fascinating as the film itself. During the preproduction of his last film, Secret Things, Brisseau was accused of sexual harassment by four actresses and he ended up paying some fines. Brisseau has taken that experience and turned just part of it into the fascinating and erotic Exterminating Angels. The main character...
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curtisology:
Great interview. I must see this film.
Incidentally, when I first saw the title for this interview, for a split second I thought it was going to be about a remake of Luis Buuel's Exterminating Angel...silly me.
Thanks for the heads-up on this film!
Incidentally, when I first saw the title for this interview, for a split second I thought it was going to be about a remake of Luis Buuel's Exterminating Angel...silly me.
Thanks for the heads-up on this film!
horseheadfiddle:
Yeah, I like the nod.
I saw Buuel's when I was rather
young. I liked the conceit of it and
some other aspects, but I'm sure I'd
appreciate it much more now, years down the road.
I just saw The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
in a theatre. That was great!
I saw Buuel's when I was rather
young. I liked the conceit of it and
some other aspects, but I'm sure I'd
appreciate it much more now, years down the road.
I just saw The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
in a theatre. That was great!
curtisdead said:
Great interview. I must see this film.
Incidentally, when I first saw the title for this interview, for a split second I thought it was going to be about a remake of Luis Buuel's Exterminating Angel...silly me.
Thanks for the heads-up on this film!
Though it may not seem like it to the Billboard Hot 100, hip-hop is going through a great period and K-OS is at the forefront of that. K-OS has been dropping rhymes on us since 1993 and has become one of the most respected MCs in the scene. Canadian born, the work of K-OS is a mixture of a number of influences including 80s hip-hop...
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grahamfacekillah:
Dinosaur Jr. was a horrible fad. They broke off from SST and became what all true music lovers hate. THis is bullshit. To say that this influenced anything is like saying I listened to Slayer once. Now I like metal. Utter crap-o-la!
uvita:
i love k-os
New York comicon was pretty fun,.
i chaired that star wars panel. that was fun. i forgot to introduce them and myself so i did it a bit later.
i did some interviews with people like john landis, eli roth and jonathan craven. it was fun!
my fucking legs are killing me from all the walking. cons are so bizarre. to tell you the truth...
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i chaired that star wars panel. that was fun. i forgot to introduce them and myself so i did it a bit later.
i did some interviews with people like john landis, eli roth and jonathan craven. it was fun!
my fucking legs are killing me from all the walking. cons are so bizarre. to tell you the truth...
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morgan:
I work at The Sidran Institute at the helpdesk. Mostly I answer calls and emails and log clients into our database.
morgan:
it is heavy indeed...really interesting though. In general I'd like to work for some kind of community service agency when I'm done with school, and something like Sidran would be perfect. Though working nonprofits will definitely necessitate finding ways to avoid getting burnt out.
Joe Pistone is best known as the man who broke the Bonanno crime family. As an undercover agent known to the mob as Donnie Brasco, Pistone infiltrated the family for six years. The evidence Pistone collected over the years led to the convictions of over 100 individual Mafiasos. Pistone eventually wrote that story in the book Donnie Brasco which was turned into a feature film...
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fitzsimmons:
Awesome interview.
Lily Burana is a true jack of all trades. Burana has great success with her first book, Strip City, which detailed her farewell to the stripper life. That achievement led to Buranas writing being all over the web and even some fancy schmancy print paper called The New York Times. Last year Burana released her first fiction work, Try, about a young woman who returns...
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pervyoldguy:
I absolutely adore Strip City. Very smart and funny, and she's a fine stylist, earwise. It's given me a perspective on the business I hadn't found anywhere else.
squee_:
Great interview.
Craig Brewer made one of the most startling film debuts in recent history with Hustle & Flow, which ended up getting two Oscar nominations and winning one for Best Original Song. Instead of waiting for the accolades to roll in Brewer jumped right into his next picture, the southern fried noir-esque Black Snake Moan. Brewer has sidestepped the sophomore slump with this amazingly original picture....
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elicit77:
The first time I saw the comercial for this movie was during the Daytona 500 on CMT. I was like, "OH SHIT! Are these people trying to kill Sammy Jackson by showing this commercail during the redneck superbowl, the Daytona 500! 
" Anyway, I totally want to see this movie, it piqued my interest that day. 
" Anyway, I totally want to see this movie, it piqued my interest that day. 
noirkiss3:
noir-esque what is that?
It was pretty...horrible.