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The Surgeon’s Photo

“I realised for the first time, with complete assurance, the picture was not a fake and that the Loch Ness monster was real and tangible: a living animal, or one that had been real and alive when the picture was taken in 1934.” So said the late Tim Dinsdale (a Nessie hunter who took the only seriously considered film of …

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Film Review: Gattaca (1997)

SYNOPSIS: “Vincent is one of the last ‘natural’ babies born into a sterile, genetically-enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at thirty, he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes, instead of your gender, race or religion. Going underground, he assumes the …

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Interview: Tina Ivlev (Bound to Vengeance)

Actress and (legit bad ass) Tina Ivlev, (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dead Rising 3, The Bridge, Anger Management, Death Clique) stars in the new film BOUND TO VENGEANCE, Directed by Jose Manuel Cravioto. She is held captive by kidnapper Phil played by Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop, There’s Something About Mary, Black Hawk Down) Tina does a tremendous job in the …

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RIP Tom Piccirilli

On Saturday, July 11, Tom Piccirilli died. I remember stumbling on A Lower Deep back in 2001. It sat on a shelf in the book section of Kroger, that f**king harlequin staring me down like I owed it money. I remember being drawn in by the smooth, morose lyrical prose down into the depths of this weird ass necromancer and …

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