Author: Bartholemew Cobb
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A Christmas Gift: Explaining the Stock Market Scene in Trading Places
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Read more: A Christmas Gift: Explaining the Stock Market Scene in Trading PlacesDon’t snort, you had no clue what was going on, admit it.
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It’s Halloween, I hate Stephen King: Here’s Why
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Read more: It’s Halloween, I hate Stephen King: Here’s WhyWho gave him the unmitigated GALL! to pontificate on the goodness or badness of a writer. Is it his success? The trapped-in-an-airport money he made? Fine.
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Top 10 Halloween Candies That Are More Trick Than Treat
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Read more: Top 10 Halloween Candies That Are More Trick Than TreatCandy Corn-Why?–That not a cruel thing to ask, I mean, step back. Candy. Corn. Fucking why? They don’t taste like corn. And they don’t look like corn kernels, except the thin yellow layer at the top
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The Great Pumpkin and the Tragic Piety of Linus
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Read more: The Great Pumpkin and the Tragic Piety of LinusI was asked what I like to watch for Halloween, what scares me and what do I watch to be scared, and I had to think about it because I usually don’t watch anything for Halloween.
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Brazil (1985)
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Read more: Brazil (1985)80% of people claim to have read 1984 while only 16% have actually done so, and 78% of people who’ve seen Brazil claim to have understood its parody of 1984. While we have no data on how many are telling the truth, it’s safe to surmise that 14% made the connection.
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Top Ten Low Effort Halloween Costumes
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Read more: Top Ten Low Effort Halloween CostumesIs it Halloween again? All the candy-distribution, and the paper-ghost hanging not to mention the turds in the birdbath. When did things get so complicated!?
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American Werewolf in London (1981)
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Read more: American Werewolf in London (1981)1969. John Landis is a kid on his first movie set, just out of school and bushy-tailed for adventure. The studio sends him to be Ninth Asst. Director Once Removed on a war film in Serbia, or Albania, or Montenegro—one of those gray, superstitious countries
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Hellraiser (1987)
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Read more: Hellraiser (1987)Internet porn and plastic in our water supply is creating more and more men like Frank Cotton. A besotted hedonist, a flesh-worshiper of the most bent and twisted caste possible.
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Read more: The Ninth Gate (1999)In the grand universe of horror/mystery tropes, the most hoary and venerable must be: Start it with an old dude hanging himself. The viewer is instantly gripped: why-oh-why did this dignified gentleman find it necessary to end himself?
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Casablanca (1942)
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Read more: Casablanca (1942)Casablanca is a hornet’s nest of thieves and cutthroats, as one of my favorite characters, the pickpocket, says “Be careful, there are vultures, vultures everywhere,”