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Entries from January 2008

Return of the Jedi

January 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Return of the Jedi
1983.  Richard Marquand.
From the mysterious, underworld palace of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt, filled with a variety of imaginative aliens and giant monsters, to the flying motorcycle chases through the vast forests of Endor, Return of the Jedi has everything.  The film delivers more creatures, more effects and more action [...]

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Tags: Movies That Aren't Complete Shit

Hopefully Erroneous Quotation Marks #1

January 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

 

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Tags: Vintage Comic Ads

The New Shmoo! (err… Gordon Universe)

January 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Welcome to the new and improved Gordon Universe.
I (Andy) was pretty fed up with having to edit so much html everytime I wanted to chime in with a new strip or movie review, so now the site is blog-oriented. 
“But what will that mean for the strip?”
There will be a strip archive page that will NOT [...]

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Tags: Site Updates

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989. Steven Spielberg.
The Last Crusade, the third film in the Indiana Jones series, which sees Indiana teaming up with his father to search for the Holy Grail, is so jokey that you could almost call it a comedy.  Fortunately, the humor actually works, thanks to fantastic performances by Harrison Ford [...]

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Creature From the Black Lagoon

January 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954. Jack Arnold 
Creature From the Black Lagoon may be the most competent monster movie of the 1950’s. Certainly, it is one of the most influential. Nearly everything in it works beautifully, and elements of it can be found in countless monster movies in the decades following.
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No Shit in 2008

January 1st, 2008 · No Comments

 
No Shit in 2008!
50 new films will be inducted this year as part of the “Movies That Aren’t Complete Shit” series. Over 30 of the films have already been selected by us here at the Anti-Shit Institute, but if you want in on the action, you’ll have to check back as one new film is [...]

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