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For Gary, the future (along with growing up) seemingly cannot come quickly enough. Everything stands as a new opportunity, easily malleable to his conception of the world. Alana, lying on the cusp of adulthood, cannot wait to break free from the life she's constructed. With no idea where she's headed, she craves something new—a fresh start—even if that comes in the form of a charismatic teenage hustler. So around and around the two of them go, preoccupied with meddling…
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“The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.”
Visceral, dream-like horror compounded with the discreet effects media plays on our minds…
Taking a 12 hour (extended edition) trek through Middle Earth today
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Hell can wait for those deserving. It is fate and retribution that must first materialize, regardless of cost.
Unrelenting, astonishing, and pretty fucking epic
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