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Trading Card Close-up #12: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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2008-10-22 02:42:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...card In 1981, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's 1930s-style cliffhanger/serial pastiche, Raiders of the Lost Ark , took the box-office by storm The blockbuster (and critically-acclaimed) film generated not only three successful sequels over the years (and decades), it also spawned a cottage industry of merchandise: from action-figures and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Mind Meld Make-Up Test: Orson Scott Card on Young Adult Fiction

2008-03-19 11:33:06 by John in SF Signal
 
...Card's response to last week's Mind Meld on young adult sf/f fiction , which was received after the post was published Q: It seems that more and more, fiction marketed as "Young Adult" deals with mature themes. Has it crossed a line? Is young adult sf/f is too explicit Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse

2008-05-20 16:47:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...card to be played for selfish advantage has become commonplace The Race Card will examine the prevalence of dubious and questionable accusations of racism and other types of bias The term racism is in a state of crisis Self-serving individuals, rabble-rousers, and political hacks use accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia and other types...
 
 
 
 
 
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TRADING CARD CLOSE-UP # 13: Jurassic Park (1993)

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2008-11-22 03:03:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...cards related to the film On the last front, Topps offered a Jurassic Park set which included "movie cards," "stickers" and "holograms." Each pack sold for a mere 69 cents, and there were over 150 cards to collect in all Some cards re-told the plot of the film. For instance, on the back of the card entitled "The Sick Triceratops" ( #28),...
 
 
 
 
 
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Science Report Card on Sci-Fi Movies

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2008-03-15 23:40:14 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...card on some of the major SciFi movies and took a look at how real the science is in science fiction The categories of mistakes in our report card should be pretty self-explanatory, but just in case, Ill expand on them a little bit Theres no sound in space Not all planets have Earth gravity Planets should have diverse climates, instead of one...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hammer Horror Official Trading Card Collection

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2008-08-18 12:30:00 by Holger Haase in Hammer and Beyond
...cards which soon became collectors items and are now mainly available through Ebay As such I was quite excited to hear that Hammer has teamed up with Strictly Ink to commission a new set of officially sanctioned Hammer Horror trading cards Strictly Ink are around since 1999 and have created a nice little niche for themselves by publishing a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Film fest bribery case sprawls to the Elite Card

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2008-10-05 05:22:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...card" -- the Thailand Elite Card -- which for the current price of 1.5 million baht (around US$44,000) offers membership privileges to foreigners, such as fast-tracked immigration, a five-year visa, rides in airport limosines and free pases at five-star resorts, golf courses and spas Variety has the news from the Associated Press , and the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tonight on the Tube: Presidential Debates, Wild Card NFL Football & Made-for-TV Movies

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2008-01-05 13:58:34 by Jason the TVaholic in TVaholic.com
...Card Saturday (NBC): First up is the Washington Redskins at my Seattle Seahawks. The broadcast begins at 4:30 p.m. ET with a pre-game show preceding it. The second game, the Jacksonville Jaguars at the Pittsburgh Steelers, follows and is schedule to begin at 8:00 p.m. ET. Many prognosticators seeming to be picking the road teams in both...
 
 
 
 
 
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Orson Scott Card Okays Ender's (Video) Game

2008-01-29 10:06:33 by Editor in SciFi Scanner
 
Short of an MMOG version of Snow Crash's Metaverse, perhaps nothing makes more sense than a video game adaptation of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. It's the story of a 10-year-old boy who's called on to save mankind from an