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Andrew Bujalski Discusses His New Project Computer Chess (and How You Can Help)

Eight years after Andrew Bujalski’s shoestring-budget feature debut Funny Ha Ha emerged to significant critical acclaim (no less than The New York Times declared it one of the most influential films of the decade, due in large part to Bujalski’s follow-up Mutual Appreciation and the Mumblecore movement that sprung up around it), the filmmaker is back in development mode with his shoestring-budget fourth feature, Computer Chess . And this time around, you can help.

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Andrew Bujalski Discusses His New Project Computer Chess (and How You Can Help)

Nearly 3 Decades Later, Where Does Poltergeist Stand Among Hollywood Horror?

Twenty-nine years ago this weekend, a little thriller named Poltergeist opened in theaters. Co-written and produced (and unofficially co-directed) by Steven Spielberg — whose other 1982 effort, E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial , would grab summer by the balls a week later and not let go for months — the film made an enduring catchphrase of “They’re heeeeere,” spawned rumors of a fatal curse, pushed the PG rating to its bloodiest, grossest extremes, and laid the groundwork for two sequels and and an imminent remake. But does it hold up?

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Nearly 3 Decades Later, Where Does Poltergeist Stand Among Hollywood Horror?

Colin Hanks’ Tower Records Documentary Nabs $50,000 on Kickstarter

Less than a week after announcing work on All Things Must Pass — a splendid-sounding documentary about meteoric rise and precipitous fall of the Tower Records empire — actor/producer Colin Hanks confirmed today that he and his partners had fulfilled their $50,000 fundraising goal via the crowdsourcing hotspot Kickstarter.

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Colin Hanks’ Tower Records Documentary Nabs $50,000 on Kickstarter

Solving the Smashed Tomatoes Problem, Crowdsourcing the Perfect Shopping Bag

Darya Pino relates her farmers market experience. You remember your reusable shopping bags and schlepp them to the farmer’s market, only to have some of those precious perishables crushed or damaged by the time you get home. Just last week, I lost part of a beautiful head of Romaine when the dog bolted, the bag twirled, and the already twist… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bedbug Panic Hits the Web: The Interactive Map [Fearmongering]

In the mood for some bedbug-related fearmongering and/or pranks? Check out BedbugRegistry.com , where users catalog close encounters with the bloodsucking kind. Come, let us explore this terrorizing website and see whose lives we can ruin with it. More