There are just so many reasons to love Sir Patrick Stewart.
He gets into the Halloween spirit, for one.
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Tagged Amnesty International, Combat Stress, Comic-Con, Comicpalooze, Doctor Who, domestic abuse, Fame Day, feminism, Hamlet, Harry Potter, Ian McKellan, Jean Luc Picard, Lord of the Rings, Men, Patrick Stewart, Professor Xavier, Refuge, respect, Ring the Bell campaign, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, television, video games, Violence, women, X-Men, YouTube
I don’t usually celebrate Halloween readers. Honestly, I don’t celebrate any holiday, if I can help it, May Day being the sole exception.
Nevertheless, we’re always trying to expand our horizons here at Culture War Reporters, and hope that you might be trying the same. To help us both get into the psychotically commercialized spirit of the season (baby steps, people, baby steps), here’s our recommendations for your scary viewing pleasure.
The Mothman Prophecies
I’d honestly be surprised if you had heard of this one. 2002’s The Mothman Prophecies wasn’t a big enough hit or a bad enough flop to gain either fame or notoriety. Regardless of it’s mediocre performance at the box office, I think The Mothman Prophecies is probably one of the most underrated horror/thriller flicks out there. The story follows a journalist John Klein (played by Richard Gere), who in the wake of car accident in which his wife is injured and eventually dies, alternatively hunts and is haunted by a strange, otherworldly presence acting as a harbinger of doom. In a refreshing break from your run of the mill guts-and-gore flick, The Mothman Prophecies forgoes violence in favor of a tense, surreal atmosphere far more disturbing than anything that could actually be shown. If you’re a Twin Peaks or X-Files fan, you’ll probably get a kick out of this one. Continue reading
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Tagged alfred hitchcock, alien, aliens, all saint's day, all saint's day eve, bela lugosi, benicio del toro, film, flick, genre, halloween, hitchcock, horror, lon chaney jr, marble hornets, May Day, mothman, Mothman Prophecies, movie, pandorum, Paranormal Activity, Protest, Psycho, richard gere, samain, satire, silent hill, the birds, the blair witch project, the cabin in the woods, the mothman prophecies, The Wolfman, twin peaks, x-files, YouTube
We really can’t get started on Fame Day without giving a shout-out to the youth of France, who have turned out en masse over the past couple days in protest of the forcible deportation of a Roma student who was taken from a school bus in the middle of a field trip. These students have been actively calling for the resignation of the popular anti-Roma Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, to resign, and since the beginning of the protests, French President Hollande has caved to the protest and declared that the formerly expelled Roma student will be allowed to return to school.
For all the flak I give France for their issues with bigotry and Islamophobia, I really have to tip my hat to these students. These are high schoolers coming out across the country to demand justice from their government, and lo and behold, they got responded to (in a way that didn’t exclusively involve tear gas). This took some guts and ingenuity I wish the youth in the US had- I don’t know the last time high schoolers protested independently on any issue (since the 70s, at least), and I really wish the same tradition of dissidence existed over here as it does in other countries.
But let’s move on to the star of the day:
Nate’s Vlogs.
Posted in internet
Tagged british, Chanel, common sense, customer service, deportation, dry, employee evalution, France, French President Hollande, hollande, humor, Islamophobia, Manuel Valls, Nate Fisher, Nate's Vlogs, retail, Roma, social services, social work, US, Valls, vlogs, Xenophobia, Youth, YouTube
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done this, but I’ve actually dedicated three past Fame Days to YouTube channels/shows: StarCrafts, Geek Love, and Munchies. Thinking hard on what to write about for today, I almost slapped myself when I realized that I’ve never blogged about my three favourite YouTube comedians.
Late in December 2011 “Bathroom Blues” came online, heralding the first of dozens of videos to come-
Posted in Comedy, Fame Day, internet
Tagged Ahmed Bharoocha, comedy, Comedy Central, Dead Kevin, Dead Kevin Sketch, Fame Day, Friends, funny, Jack Robichaud, John Hale, Maureen Bharoocha, roommates, Ryan O'Flanagan, sketches, videos, YouTube
A while ago (and with great reluctance from Evan), I posted a defense of piracy.
Understanding how much Evan and I differ on the subject, I wouldn’t have written anything more about it- had the BBC not just put forth an article kinda vindicating my entire position.
Oh, you better believe I’m gonna be cocky about this…
Posted in Canada, film, internet, money, music, news
Tagged art, artist, box office, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, HBO, mainstream sources, money, music, musician, netflix, piracy, pirate, prevention of access, profit, quality speed, Reed Hastings, SOPA, television, Time Warner, vince gilligan, YouTube
I’m going to start out with a few fun facts for readers both old and new alike.
At the time of this writing our blog has approximately 85,750 views. We have been averaging roughly 175 hits per day ever since the very talented Kat came aboard, and she’s largely the reason we’re almost at 200 on a Friday evening in spite of my not having posted yet. As is the norm, far too many of the search terms used to find this site have been people looking for porn; we began catering to fans of a particular sub-genre once Gordon wrote that one post about the hijab.
The most hits we have ever gotten was a result of massive Facebook sharing of a post I wrote about the bombing that happened in Boston. That all-time high was 562 views.
Last week Kanye West tweeted about Pacific Rim, praising it for being “easily one of [his] favorite movies of all time.” That first tweet was retweeted 8,853 times, and memorialized 5,177 times by all his twitter followers who chose to favourite it. To put that into context, Kanye West has about 9.7 million people following him on Twitter.
Kan-Jaeger West
Posted in bizarreness, celebrity, environmentalism, film, media, music, news, politics, television
Tagged actor, awareness, celebrity, Culture War Reporters, environmentalism, force feeding, guantanamo bay, internet, Kan-Jaeger West, Kanjaeger West, Kayne West, Mark Ruffalo, Mos Def, Pacific Rim, rapper, social justice, social media, Twitter, US terror advisory list, YouTube
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