Cinematic Doppelgangers: Surprising Similarities in Film Stills

If you are already way over the excitement of Google Similar Images, may we recommend The Inevitable, a 2007 film installation project by New York video artist and programmer Kurt Ralske which used custom software to search through movies, looking for frame-by-frame similarities in shape, and leading to some unexpected matches. The results different films were run across six synchronized video monitors, the stills freezing when they converge at ...

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10 Essential Russian Films

A box set containing three early works from Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov arrives on Blu-ray (with two films on DVD) today from Cinema Guild. The masterworks include the poetic Whispering Pages (using Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as its main inspiration), the aural Stone, and a surreal retelling of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, 1990's Save and Protect. Sokurov has had a prolific career, admired by everyone from Susan Sontag to Darren ...

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The 5 Most Ironic Scenes of Utter Destruction

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If Famous Albums Were Retitled With Brutal Honesty

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If Holiday Cards Were Allowed to Kick Ass

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5 Ways High School Really Does Suck (According to Science)

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4 International Incidents Caused By Drunk Boris Yeltsin

From 1991 to 1999, Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected President of Russia, leading the way for reforms, rekindling relationships with the West ...Reuters via The Age... and generally hitting the hooch harder than Ulysses S. Grant and Ernest Hemingway's reanimated corpses sewn together like some kind of pickled, two-headed Frankenstein's monster. Throughout his presidency, Yeltsin's tippling habit thrilled world leaders in such exotic ...

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3 Ways the 'War on Christmas' Is Way Older Than You Think

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The 5 Most Baffling Christmas-Related Crimes Ever

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The 4 Worst Lessons Disney Movies Taught Us as Kids

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15 Unexpected Origins of Famous Ideas

An apple falls on Newton's head, BAM -- gravity. Franklin puts a key on a kite, BAM -- electricity. Tesla harnesses said electricity, BAM -- Edison hoodwinks him and makes millions. Point is, you never know where famous ideas might develop from. We asked our readers to show us the gritty origins of some of our most famous inventions. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...View the original article h ...

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6 Insane Game Shows You Won't Believe Were Allowed on TV

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3 Reasons You Shouldn't Play the Best Video Game of the Year

HomeColumnists3 Reasons You Shouldn't Play the Best Video Game of the YearI'm calling it: Far Cry 3 is probably going to take Game of the Year. It's ambitious but approachable; satisfyingly challenging, yet still casually fun. It's an excellent game, and that's why I'm going to tell you all about ... why you shouldn't play it.Listen: everybody and their mother is going to tell you all about the myriad awesome reasons you must play this game -- I'm ...

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The Mind-Blowing Origin Story of 'Miranda Rights'

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A Letter to My Neighbors About My Dubstep Lightshow

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'Die Another Day' Was All in Bond€™s Head: Conspiracy Theory

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Countdown to the End: Road Warrior

The Road Warrior movies are fantastic. The sense of tension and dread that you feel when you watch the first film is just magnificent. The second movie, Mad Max 2 is perhaps one of the best movies with a post-apocalyptic theme ever made.Of course, they were made in the early days before Mel Gibson was a psycho. I’m not quite sure what happened to him, maybe he fell apart as he got older, or maybe it was all the stress of the coming apocalypse. After ...

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HTC M7 Prepared For A February 2013 Debut

Every smartphone company would need a flagship device to keep the colors flying, and it is no different with HTC. In fact, the rumored HTC M7 is said to be lined up for a February 2013 debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and we have some leaked details on what you can expect underneath the hood after the jump.It seems that an anonymous (although believed to be reliable) source claims that the HTC M7 will deliver some industry firsts, ...

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6 Mind-Blowing Archeological Discoveries Destroyed by Idiocy

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Polaroid Android Camera In The Works (Rumor)

Right now, Samsung is having the lion’s share of the Android-powered digital camera market with their Samsung Galaxy Camera, but that might change in the future with a leak from Russian social networking site VK that Polaroid is looking to jump aboard the bandwagon with an Android-powered camera of their own, known as the Polaroid IM1836.Right now, Samsung is having the lion’s share of the Android-powered digital camera market with their Samsung ...

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HTC Thunderbolt Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update Coming “Soon”

The HTC Thunderbolt was quite the powerhouse when it was released to the markets earlier last year, sporting LTE connectivity that offered blazing fast Internet speeds on-the-go, but it also drained the phone’s battery faster than you can say, “Ice Cream Sandwich”. Speaking of Ice Cream Sandwich, this long awaited OS update (yes, the Thunderbolt still runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread) is said to arrive soon for the HTC Thunderbolt.Whispers of an ...

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