The Identity Supremacy Ultimatum | The Jason Bourne Travel Package
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In honor of the release of The Bourne Legacy, we at Awkward Travel LLC asked ourselves, what would happen if you actually followed the footsteps of Jason Bourne? And not just from TNT to TBS at 3 am on a Saturday night after a seedy trip to the bar, but on an international pilgrimage of violence and intrigue? What if you went to every place that he visits in the trilogy? Welcome to The Identity Supremacy Ultimatum™.

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Soccer and Rom Coms
Submitted by | July 7, 2010
Soccer and Rom Coms

Piss off, Twilight: Eclipse.
Go to hell, Toy Story 3.
Good riddance, Knight and Day.
Let’s be honest. The only real blockbuster this summer is the World Cup. Football. Soccer. The world’s game. The beautiful game. But not …

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Bite-Size Satisfaction | Game of Death
Submitted by | June 30, 2010

Tyler Re: is driving a moving truck from Louisiana to Michigan, so he’s skipping right to dessert this week.
Satiate your appetite with this clip: Bruce Lee fighting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Game of Death, a posthumous …

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A Rant on “Great Film”
Submitted by | June 28, 2010
A Rant on “Great Film”

This review comes to you unfiltered by Rui Nogueira. Her commentary impressed me, but I lost my notes.
Jean Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai opens with this quotation from The Book of Bushido:
“There is no greater solitude …

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Lee Van Cleef + Kung Fu = Blood Money
Submitted by | June 23, 2010
Lee Van Cleef + Kung Fu = Blood Money

Back in the day of fantastical antiquity, Greek historian Herodotus claimed he knew where cinnamon came from (the origin of the spice being a particular puzzler back then): in Arabia, there lived giant cinnamon birds …

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Spy vs. Spy | Are You Serious?
Submitted by | June 9, 2010
Spy vs. Spy | Are You Serious?

Silent film genius Fritz Lang made a spy film in 1928 called, straightforwardly, Spies. Alfred Hitchcock, paving the way for the English penchant for the genre, made a string of spy movies in the ‘30s …

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Pater Familias Wellsprings | Conan and Chinatown
Submitted by | June 2, 2010
Pater Familias Wellsprings | Conan and Chinatown

Chinatown.  The movie they tell you to watch.  The screenplay they tell you to read.  Director: Polanski.  Writer: Robert Towne.  Stars: Nicholson and Dunaway and John Huston.
“You’re a nosy kitty cat.”
“Sister!  Daughter!  Sister!  Daughter!”
“Forget it …

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