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Originally posted by zhgun at Dumb Ways to Die (Game of Thrones Edition)

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A little bit of back-story on this. Going back to last August, I had been visiting relatives in the Dallas area. We wanted to watch a movie after dinner, and since the one we wanted wasn't yet available for streaming, we went with the highly rated (by users and critics) "Snowpiercer".

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In Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Neil DeGrasse Tyson proves that not all TV CGI is inherently cheesy. Throughout the series' first five episodes, he acts as a modern-day Ms. Frizzle - zooming around the galaxy in his "Ship of Imagination," a WALL-E-inspired vehicle that has the magical properties of an upgraded Magic School Bus and serves as an ( Read more... )

The movie Quills presents us with a fictional perspective on the state of the psychiatric profession under the reign of Emperor Napoleon. Michael Caine plays a criminally insane alienist (the old word for psychiatrist) who takes over an asylum run by clerics. He proceeds to convert the asylum into a modern "scientific" madhouse. In his efforts ( Read more... )

I know there is just one topic on everybody's mind these days, but still... Here is something curious for those who want something else other than all the drama.


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During my youth a movie, Colossus - the Forbin Project, came out featuring a megacomputer that took over the world. The movie gave our generation an idea of what might happen if a "conscious" machine were built and put in control of nuclear arsenals. The movie plot was a bit sophisticated for my uninitiated mind, but the idea of a machine taking ( Read more... )

Some of the actors  from the Game of Thrones 3 (which is starting this weekend), and GRRM himself, were asked,

Who is Westeros’s sexiest man alive?


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The state media in Iran are fuming! Fuming, I tell ya! A chorus of ranting voices is now decrying yesterday's Oscar award that went to Ben Affleck's movie Argo. You know, the one that tells the story about the hostage crisis in Tehran from 1979. See trailer:

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