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A substantial majority of my two or three regular readers (yeah looking at you Ed and Eric) are hardcore fans of Back to the Future and its two sequels. Well, all that mucking around with history can be a pain to keep up with for some people, so a smart dude named Sean Mort has put together a terrific timeline chart of the Back to the Future saga, taking into account the events of all eight different timelines! Seriously, I had no idea there were so many until I saw how Sean put it all into proper perspective. I’m gonna print this out to have handy when the Blu-ray set comes out in a few months.

And with Inception still going strong at the box office, plenty of people might still be trying to figure out its labyrinthine structure. Cinema Blend has put together a great illustrated guide to ...

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Yesterday the Internets were lit up about how Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception shared some common elements with one of Bill Waterson’s Calvin and Hobbes comic strips.

If you thought that was a honkin’ big coincidence, wait’ll you get a load of this ‘un…

Those same sharp lads at GeekTyrant have scored another find. The whole plot of Inception is eerily similar to Dream of a Lifetime: a 2004 Disney-published comic book about… Scrooge McDuck!

Here’s a page from the comic. Click on it to drastically embiggenize…

According to the guys at GeekTyrant, Dream of a Lifetime “… tells the story of how the Beagle Boys used a device to enter Scrooge McDuck’s dreams to extract the secret combination to Scrooge McDuck’s vault! I dead freakin’ serious! Did Nolan get his idea from a Uncle Scrooge comic book!?”

Mash down here for the link to GeekTyrant’s page, ...

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Dear Lord, it’s worse than anyone thinks. Y’see, so far this summer I’ve only seen three movies. What does that mean: that there just ain’t as much good stuff playing down at the cinema this season? More likely, it’s that I’ve been so bogged-down with working on various projects that I haven’t had much time to indulge in what is usually something that I look forward to each year: namely, summer blockbusters.

But somehow or another I’ve gotten to see the following, and will share my thoughts on them accordingly.

Predators

This was the first movie I’ve seen in a theater since April or May, and I saw it on opening day with my filmmaking partner “Weird” Ed. And I was very pleasantly surprised at how well this turned out. The Predator franchise holds a special place in my heart: Predator 2 was the very first movie that I saw ...

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…which will bring the total number of movies that I’ve seen this summer to three. And I ain’t reviewed any of ’em yet! So I’ll prolly unload those tomorrow.

(Hey, it’s hard to see and write about movies when you’re prepping to shoot your own. And I ain’t even mentioned the international cast that’s coming in next week for this thing…)...

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