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RadioNowhere

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It's eclectic! It's eccentric! It's RadioNowhere! The official and original since 2002! ...

Colin Hanks recommended Pulp Fiction (1994) in Movies (curated)

"Pulp Fiction was a very big deal for me. That was the first film I remember seeing where I felt compelled to have a conversation afterwards with anyone who saw it. Prior to that, I was still a young kid; I was still in high school, and I would see movies and I would be like, “Oh that was great,” and move on. But that was one that stuck with me for so long; the performances and the dialogue were just so memorable. I just wanted to talk to whoever had seen it. I just felt like it was something you needed to talk about. And obviously that was a film that really changed the direction of film history for a great many people, myself included."

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The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories

H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi

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Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of...

Jarvis Cocker recommended track Gut Feeling by Devo in Greatest Hits by Devo in Music (curated)

Greatest Hits by Devo

1990 | Rock

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Gut Feeling by Devo

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"I kept reading about punk, but the local radio station wouldn’t play punk; they didn’t think it was real music. That led to me one of the musical discoveries of my life. One night, I really wanted to hear what this punk music was and, turning the radio dial, I heard John Peel’s radio show. I started listening to it and taking songs off there all the time, and that became my musical education. It made me want to form a group; the early Pulp were really just a ragbag of the influences that we’d picked up from listening to John Peel’s show every night. The first Devo album came out that year [in 1978], and I went to see them play at the City Hall in Sheffield, which was quite influential. One of the first songs that Pulp learned how to play was the Devo song “Gut Feeling.” A couple of years later, when we first did some recordings, I took them to John Peel—he used to do these road shows at colleges, and I just went along to the one he did in Sheffield and hung around and gave him the tape after when he was putting all his records back into his DJ box at the end. He listened to it on the way home, and that really changed my life. Then he gave us a session [in 1981]. We were all still at school. I was 16 or maybe just 17, and the drummer was 15 and he looked about 12. He could hardly reach the bass drum pedal to play the drum."

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Hutch (9 KP) rated True Romance (1993) in Movies

Jun 18, 2019

True Romance (1993)

1993 | Action, Drama, Mystery

8.5

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Who said Romamce was dead?

Tarantino really burst onto the scene in unforgettable fashion in the early 90s and sandwiched between Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction is this often overlooked Tarantino penned gem.
Full of the witty dialogue, odd ball characters and great music that we've all come to expect from Tarantino, all bought to life by a stunning supporting cast.
I've always thought Christian Slater has been under rated and he proves my point here. Playing Clarence with so much charm and swagger that you can't help rooting for him and Alabama right from the start.
And the scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken is so well written and played out that its gotta rank right up there with the best of Tarantino.

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Jeremy King (346 KP) rated Shaft (1971) in Movies

Aug 15, 2019

Shaft (1971)

1971 | Action, Crime, Thriller

7.0

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I just finished watching this film.
All i can say is WOW and not in a good way.

This film and character are iconic in pulp fiction. After i watched this film i question why? I was bored with this film. Now it might because movies today have more action, so maybe i was expecting it to be more action pack.

To me this film was good and forgettable. If i seen this in the early 70s and it was not hyped up as much as it is it would just be a footnote on the bottom of a page.

The theme song was great and i would remmber that.

Music was great.
Setting was great
Acting was great

I plan to watch more of the Shaft movies. I know the newer ones are better.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Ikarie XB-1 (1963) in Movies

Jun 23, 2019 (Updated Jun 23, 2019)

Ikarie XB-1 (1963)

1963 | Sci-Fi

6.0

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One of those movies which has clearly been influential but remains relatively little-seen, certainly in the original version. XB-1 and its crew (mostly good-looking young people, a few rugged old character actors, and a fairly dreadful robot prop) blast off for Alpha Centauri but must come to terms with the strains of long-haul spaceflight and various dangers (radiation, dangerous derelicts, and so on).

Arguably the missing link between Forbidden Planet and 2001: A Space Odyssey (yes, that's a bold claim), with a strange mixture of pulp SF tropes but also downbeat psychological realism. Notably good and interesting sets, photography, and a memorable avant-garde musical score too. The story is a bit episodic and not exactly pacey, but the rest of the film makes up for this.