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Sabadino Parker

Sabadino Parker has been writing for PopMatters since 2000. A lifelong writer from Connecticut, Sabadino's weekly syndicated DVD review column, "Getting Reel," has appeared in local newspapers for almost a decade, and his fiction and poetry have been published in both print and online media. Having recently earned his Masters in English from Trinity College with a thesis focusing on Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman, Sabadino is hoping to amass a collection of degrees to match that of his comic books. He is currently the editorial manager for The Scene Magazine and owns Sparker Media, a freelance writing, editing, and online marketing company. Feel free to e-mail Seb at [email protected]. For inquiries as to his services, e-mail Sparker Media at [email protected]. He is currently at work on his second novel, which should see the light of day sometime in 2012.

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'Phenomenon': Or, How to Make Use of Good Manure

Sometime before being dismissed as out of his gourd, John Travolta made a film more than suggestive of his growing attraction to the marriage of the worlds of spiritualism and science fiction.

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Fated for Scoffing: 'Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents Manos: The Hands of Fate'

Few of the B-rated movies the cast of MST3K lambasted come close to the dreadful incompetence of “Manos”: The Hands of Fate.

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Something a Little Bit Different: 'David Byrne: Ride, Rise, Roar'

David Byrne's theme of human optimism in the face of the dread inherent in an increasingly impersonal world continues -- a theme becoming more relevant with each passing decade.

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'The Roommate' Ain't 'Single White Female'

If one can say something close to complimentary about The Roommate, it's that Leighton Meester pulls off playing a slick psycho with a slightly tantalizing believability.

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Deadly Connections in 'My Time Will Come'

My Time Will Come is a cinematic achievement from a region of the world whose theatrical talent has been given little spotlight. Its value as a work of ingenuity will make it a prized possession of any film aficionado's library.

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'Inside Job' Is a Call to Arms

Treated almost like a crime story, Inside Job unveils a sordid world of the prosperous elite who take an almost unseemly pleasure in living lives of unscrupulous lavishness, with no regard to whom they harm.

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Is It Possible to Go Any Lower Than 'The Human Centipede'? Don't Answer That

Imagine one of the worst situations you could be in, and chances are your imagination wouldn’t come up with the horror of Tom Six’s The Human Centipede.

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'Crumb': Portrait of an Artist as a Self-Exiled Man

An in-depth analysis of the reclusive man, his troubled family, and his infamously provocative work, which has both won him praise and garnered him criticism bordering on outright disgust.

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In 'Clash of the Titans' and Its Sequel, Only the Gods Know What Hollywood Was -- and Is -- Thinking

In all, this new Clash of the Titans serves only to remind audiences that some movies were not meant to be remade.

Film

Party Monster (2003)

Michael Alig's megalomania even reached such epic proportions that he had no qualms about bragging over the murder on camera during the filming of the original Party Monster documentary.

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The X-Files

The X-Files has long been but a pale reflection of the show it once was.

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Books

So Long, and Thanks for All the Laughs

[Douglas Adams possessed] a mind that had an amazing ability to place a unique perspective on weighty matters while maintaining a tone of absolute lightheartedness. Adams was one person who could see the big picture and realize how terribly bland a sight it was.

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Sometime before being dismissed as out of his gourd, John Travolta made a film more than suggestive of his growing attraction to the marriage of the worlds of spiritualism and science fiction.

Few of the B-rated movies the cast of MST3K lambasted come close to the dreadful incompetence of “Manos”: The Hands of Fate.

David Byrne's theme of human optimism in the face of the dread inherent in an increasingly impersonal world continues -- a theme becoming more relevant with each passing decade.

If one can say something close to complimentary about The Roommate, it's that Leighton Meester pulls off playing a slick psycho with a slightly tantalizing believability.

My Time Will Come is a cinematic achievement from a region of the world whose theatrical talent has been given little spotlight. Its value as a work of ingenuity will make it a prized possession of any film aficionado's library.

Treated almost like a crime story, Inside Job unveils a sordid world of the prosperous elite who take an almost unseemly pleasure in living lives of unscrupulous lavishness, with no regard to whom they harm.

Imagine one of the worst situations you could be in, and chances are your imagination wouldn’t come up with the horror of Tom Six’s The Human Centipede.

An in-depth analysis of the reclusive man, his troubled family, and his infamously provocative work, which has both won him praise and garnered him criticism bordering on outright disgust.

In all, this new Clash of the Titans serves only to remind audiences that some movies were not meant to be remade.

Michael Alig's megalomania even reached such epic proportions that he had no qualms about bragging over the murder on camera during the filming of the original Party Monster documentary.

The X-Files has long been but a pale reflection of the show it once was.

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[Douglas Adams possessed] a mind that had an amazing ability to place a unique perspective on weighty matters while maintaining a tone of absolute lightheartedness. Adams was one person who could see the big picture and realize how terribly bland a sight it was.