Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Dec 3, 2009, 7:34 am
Claymation duo enjoy two decades of slapstick chuckles! Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit are soon to celebrate twenty years of Wensleydale-and-wacky-invention fun, their first short, A Grand Da...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Nov 26, 2009, 8:04 am
Paul M. Sammon/Orion Books/1996. In 1980, Paul M. Sammon began work on a series of articles for Cinefantastique magazine, the subject of which concerned a forthcoming adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Nov 21, 2009, 6:18 pm
Plucky Gaul, Muppet Show forerunner and filthy rag celebrate anniversaries! Wonderous French comic series Asterix recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, having originally appeared in the first edi...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Nov 17, 2009, 6:42 pm
Sad farewell to a solid actor. Much-loved actor Edward Woodward passed away Monday (Nov 16) at the Royal Cornwall Hospital aged 79. He had been suffering from health problems for some time. Born in S...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Nov 16, 2009, 3:50 pm
To atone for dragging Halloween out for so long, here’s an early Christmas movie review! Film Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol (Disney Digital 3-D). Director Robert Zemeckis is perhaps best kn...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Nov 14, 2009, 1:43 pm
Chuck’s Culture Carnival: extending Halloween well into November! Romero remake trailer! In the first CCC Halloween Special some weeks back I posted a few recent horror trailers, but here’s one ...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Nov 6, 2009, 3:07 am
Look, its still Halloween season, alright? Kinda. A New Blair Witch? Low-budget horror The Blair Witch Project proved a huge hit on its release in 1999. It was not an entirely original film - the pr...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 27, 2009, 12:30 am
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work and no play makes jack a dull boy All work Hammer Festival in...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 25, 2009, 4:53 pm
Ghouls and goblins and ghosts, oh my! *vincent price voice* Wmhahaha! Welcome to the first edition of my three-part Halloween season special! I’ll be covering things of a rather horrific nature ove...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 24, 2009, 5:31 pm
I ain't getting on no first official still! Er... It may have epitomised the gung-ho reactionary politics of it’s time, but unrealistic sanitized violence fest The A-Team has long remained a st...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 22, 2009, 6:03 pm
Teaser for Season Of The Witch, and new trailer for The Wolfman! Well, shops have been filling up with skeleton, ghost, pumpkin and other paranormal paraphernalia for the past month here… yes indee...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 19, 2009, 6:08 pm
Stephen Gately 1976 – 2009. Ludovic Kennedy 1919 – 2009. I can’t claim to be a big fan of their particular brand of pop music, but the passing of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately at the tender age o...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 11, 2009, 3:52 pm
"That rabbit's dynamite!" In 1971, with the success of the first two series of the Flying Circus, talk arose of a Python movie. This suggestion came from an unlikely source; Victor Lownes, head o...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 9, 2009, 4:56 pm
Gumbys and pepperpots and silly walks, oh my! It is approximately 11:00 PM on October 5th, 1969. Over on BBC One now the very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is beginning, and on this...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 6, 2009, 2:53 am
First Doolittle show was as loud as hell… Its twenty years since the release of the Pixies seminal Doolittle album, and the band are acknowledging the anniversary with a number of European and U.S....
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Oct 3, 2009, 11:48 am
Teaser for Elm St. remake hits the web… but is it a case of same old same old? The first trailer for next year’s A Nightmare On Elm Street remake has gone online. With Samuel Bayer, director of m...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Sep 26, 2009, 10:49 pm
Movie studio shaken and stirred… The first rule of Facebook… Be afraid, etc. Venerable film company MGM is apparently undergoing something of a financial crisis, and may even be facing bankruptcy...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Sep 25, 2009, 8:36 pm
For the most part, it’s pretty fookin’ good! (As usual, beware spoilers!) A couple of years back, Neill Blomkamp was all set to helm his first full-length feature film; an adaptation of the vide...
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Carl O' Connor posted an article on Chuck's Culture Carnival! - Sep 18, 2009, 5:44 pm
Patrick Swayze 1952 – 2009. Henry Gibson 1935 – 2009. Hi folks… once again, it's a rather downbeat edition of the Culture Carnival, with two popular actors succumbing to canc...
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