Pop, Cultured

That's all folks (but here's some more anyway)

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Since launching this blog back in July, the kind folks here at SBS Online have allowed me to bring you useless factoids about award ceremonies, video games, obscure celebrities, and films that have stirred up some kind of controversy.

Appetite for induction

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If music is the soundtrack of our lives, the upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is a compilation of life's better moments.

Scene one, AACTA one

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It's got a new name and a new time, but will that be enough to renew interest?

Hey, Jughead! Did you hear?

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Apollo and Midnighter may not be as well-known as Batman and Robin, and chances are you've never heard of Rictor and Shatterstar from X-Men.

It pays to be Roode

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A few weeks back I decided to devote an entire edition of “Pop, Cultured” to an interview I conducted with a professional wrestler during his whistle-stop visit to Australia.

Long Live the King (of Pop)

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Tomorrow it will be two years since the Australian release of "Michael Jackson's: This Is It" - a compilation of footage showing the King of Pop preparing for a future concert series of the same name.

Back to the Future... Literally

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Those of you with no life will know that the day this blog was published (October 21st, 2011) marks exactly four years until Dr. Emmet Brown, Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer will appear out of nowhere on a flyway just outside of Hill Valley to change the course of history.

Avatar takes top hack-olade

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In case you didn't know, "Avatar" remains the highest grossing film of all time.

CM Punk's Day Off

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IN the Woody Allen film "Hannah and Her Sisters", intellectual painter Frederick (played by Max von Sydow) scoffs to his wife, "Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?"

The Power of Taste Compels You

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Being the film-whore that I am, I've experienced considerable, but equal amounts of pleasure and pain from movies based on comic books.

Hey Oscars! Goonie goo-hoo!

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In 1983, a young African American comedian had spent a little over an hour reducing several thousand people at Constitution Hall in Washington DC (and, eventually, countless more across the globe) into raucous fits of laughter.

OMG! MTV VMAs! LOL!

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Before we start, yes, you can buy a vowel.

Ridley Scott's New Replicant

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Wake up! Time to sigh!

A Shot in the R18+

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Who would've thought that making something "restricted" would be so liberating?

Anyone for Venice?

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You'd think the world's oldest celebration of cinema would've done it all by now, but for the first time ever the Venice Film Festival will be screening nothing but world premiers when it begins later this month.

Freaks, geeks and Greeks

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Throughout its 41 year history, the San Diego Comic Con has been a Mecca for lovers of science fiction, comic books, video-games, useless TV trivia and several other activities that rob you of healthy skin pigmentation.

Akira goes Hollywood

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If you're an anime nut like me, chances are you cringed when you heard plans to make a live-action version of the kick-ass cyberpunk classic "Akira" were back on track.

Emmy Nominees

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The nominees for the 2011 Emmy Awards were announced overnight, with a handful of newcomers joining the list of usual suspects.

It's not all about Potter

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of Pop, Cultured. Potter-mania may have hit Trafalgar Square, but London's also looking to restore the works of another cinematic icon.