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Picking a path through the nebulous terrain of post-rockMusic : Gateways To Geekery
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As World War Z makes clear, “PG-13” and “zombies” don’t mixFilm : Movie Review
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A board game based on Rob Delaney’s Twitter feed somehow fails to capture the magic of its sourceGames : The Gameological Society
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Lindsay visits Kim Kelly's house in a Freaks And Geeks episode NBC refused to air
TV : TV Club
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Does altering the silhouettes alter Mystery Science Theater 3000?
TV : TV Roundtable
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Meddling Kids + Sidekick + Mysteries = Series: 13 Hanna-Barbera productions that recycled the Scooby-Doo format
TV : Inventory
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Wes Craven’s The Serpent And The Rainbow returns zombies to their Haitian roots
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“Deacon Blues,” Scotch, Steely Dan, and other intergenerational appreciations
Music : Hear This
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This week we’re barely putting up with Man Of Steel
Film : Tolerability Index
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Arrested Development starts looking like its old self while the Bluths start looking like other Bluths
TV : TV Club
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How The Mary Tyler Moore Show reinvented the sitcom in just 10 episodes
TV : TV Club 10
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Marketa Lazarová is a good, though baffling, introduction to the work of Czech director František Vláčil
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We check to see if Chuck E. Cheese’s is fun anymore (if it ever was)
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Our rewind of The Office's first season concludes with a future Oscar nominee pointing the show toward its destiny
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