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Danish TV Show Blows $&%# Up

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Slow Motion Videos, Danish Tv, Video, Danish Tv Show, TV 2 Zulu, Funny Videos, Slow Motion, Dumt-Farligt, Jan ElhøJ, Jan Elhoj, Lasse Spang Olsen, Danish Entertainment, Stupid and Dangerous, Explosions, Culture News

Hey! Do you like to watch stuff blow up in slow motion? Then, this video is for you. The title of the Danish TV program "Dumt & Farligt" translate...

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Dozens Killed In Bombings Across Iraq

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Kirkuk, Violence in Iraq, Bombings in Iraq, Baghdad, Shiite, Iraq, Explosions, World News

BAGHDAD — Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers ...

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Learn Why This Artist Draws With Gunpowder

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: art.sy, Video, Gunpowder, Moca, Geffen Contemporary, Sky Ladder, Chinese Art, Marina Cashdan, Cai Guo-Qiang, Art With Gunpowder, Explosions, Arts News

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is known for his aesthetically exquisite choreographed explosions. Yet for an artist so concerned with destruction, Cai's...

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Man Who Predicted NASA Space Disaster Dies At 73

AP | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Video, Nasa, Space Shuttle, Challenger Disaster, Roger Boisjoly, Cancer, Prediction, WHO Warned, Challenger Space Shuttle, Explosions, Science News

NEPHI, Utah -- Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He wa...

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WATCH: Slow Motion Microwave Madness

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Chemistry, Microwave Oven Explosion, Microwave Egg, Video, Microwave, Chemistry Video, Microwave Aluminum Foil, Microwave Video, Microwave Explosion, Explosions, Science News

Most of us know that microwave ovens don't get along with aluminum foil, CDs, and certain foods. But it can be great fun - don't try this at home - to...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Jason Reitman on Young Adult

Dan Persons | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Comedy, Diablo Cody, Off Beat, Emotion, Sex, Explosions, Young Adult, Jason Reitman, Patton Oswalt, Charlize Theron, Controversy, Indie, Young Adult Movie, Success, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Bless screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman their twisted, little hearts. Young Adult isn't season-specific, but it does serve as a healthy counterbalance to all that holiday growth and belonging.

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Reefer Madness? Thousands Of Container Cars Could Explode

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Refrigerated Cars, Msnbc, Global Shipping, Video, Containerization, Terrorism, Container Cars, Hazmat, Iso, Maersk Line, Apl, Radiation, Reefers, Explosions, Business News

Reefers are causing a worldwide panic, but not the kind most would expect. Ports in western Washington state and Oakland, California are stepping ...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Nicolas Winding Refn on Drive

Dan Persons | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Violence, Action-Adventure, Justice, Murder, Emotion, Nicolas Winding Refn, Ryan Gosling, Drama, Death, Controversy, Drive, James Sallis, Los Angeles, Success, Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, Albert Brooks, Explosions, Gritty, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

It's Refn, so moral ambiguities will abound, not to mention some exquisitely-mounted chase sequences, plus unrestrained violence. Sum total: Action goodness with both brains and balls.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Evan Glodell on Bellflower

Dan Persons | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Violence, Action-Adventure, Justice, Tyler-Dawson, Emotion, Sex, War, Drama, Tyler Dawson, Controversy, Death, Jessie Wiseman, Indie, Environment, Evan Glodell, Fantasy, Off Beat, Science Fiction, Explosions, Bellflower, Gritty, Art, Evan-Glodell, Medusa, Love, Culture News
Dan Persons

Evan Glodell's Bellflower is the tale of two Southern Californians who fill their free time with speculations of the post-apocalyptic future and preparations for same that include the construction of Matilda, a bad-ass, black automobile.

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A Traveler's Map to Michael Bay's Demolitions

Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Pearl Harbor, Transformers, The Rock, Infographics, Cuba Gooding Jr, Bad Boys, Explosions, Infographic, Michael Bay, Travel News

Far be it for us to second guess a true American artist, but it sometimes seems like director Michael Bay has it out for everything beautiful or inter...

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Cars 2

Dan Persons | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Action-Adventure, John Turturro, Bonnie Hunt, Woody Allen, Transformers, An Inconvenient Truth, Eddie Izzard, Environment, Cars, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Midnight in Paris, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Fantasy, Emily Mortimer, Explosions, Transformers 3, Animation, Owen Wilson, Pixar, Michael Bay, Cars 2, Pixar Animation, Movies, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Join Cinefantastique Online's Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons as they examine Cars 2.

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Cinefantastique Spotlight: Green Lantern

Dan Persons | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Action-Adventure, Peter Sarsgaard, Justice, Martin Campbell, Emotion, Michael Clarke Duncan, Drama, Dc Entertainment, Tim Robbins, Comedy, DC Comics, Science Fiction, Satire, Fantasy, Explosions, Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds, Animation, Blake Lively, Love, Geoffrey Rush, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The new film is Hollywood's latest attempt to take the comic book movie back to its purer roots. Does Green Lantern earn its stripes as simple summer fun?

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Super 8

Dan Persons | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Justice, Repression, Horror, Emotion, J.J. Abrams, Close Encounters, Drama, Suspense, Death, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Steven Spielberg, The Goonies, Explosions, Super 8, Lost, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, Elle Fanning, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

J.J. Abrams, the man who set the deliriously enigmatic pace for Lost in that show's pilot and upended Star Trek by blowing up Vulcan (we still haven't...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Djo Tunda Wa Munga on Viva Riva!

Dan Persons | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Violence, Justice, Manie Malone, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Gasoline, Murder, Democratic Republic of Congo, Crime, Patsha Bay Mukuna, Viva Riva, Drama, Death, Controversy, Congo, Indie, Success, Gore, Debut Feature, Smuggling, Racism, Hoji Fortuna, Explosions, Gritty, Justice System, Kinshasa, Marlene Longage, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Viva Riva! is the first film out of the Congo to get U.S. distribution, and director Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made it a hell of an introduction.

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: X-Men: First Class

Dan Persons | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Action-Adventure, Stan Lee, Bryan Singer, Justice, Repression, Emotion, Marvel Entertainment, Activism, War, X-Men, Drama, Michael Fassbender, Controversy, Success, Oliver Platt, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, Marvel Studios, Matthew Vaughn, Social Drama, James McAvoy, Marvel Comics, Science Fiction, Racism, Fantasy, X-Men First Class, Explosions, January Jones, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

X-Men: First Class is the latest installment of the Marvel film franchise to use comic book action to address some potent social issues.

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Chinese Watermelons Exploding Like 'Land Mines'

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: China Central Television, Farming, Video, Watermelons, Weird, China, Explosions, Jiangsu-Province, Danyang, Weird News News

BEIJING -- Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, crea...

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Cinefantastique Spotlight: Thor

Dan Persons | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, Action-Adventure, Marvel Entertainment, Emotion, Anthony Hopkins, War, Drama, Success, Marvel Studios, Marvel Comics, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Explosions, Chris Hemsworth, Kenneth Branagh, Thor, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Is Thor the film that will bring a Shakespearean gravitas to comic book drama, or is it just table setting for the impending The Avengers movie?

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Source Code

Dan Persons | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Action-Adventure, Time Travel, Murder, Emotion, Michelle Monaghan, Drama, Source Code, Suspense, Death, Success, Duncan Jones, Jeffrey Wright, Vera Farmiga, Off Beat, Science Fiction, Jake Gyllenhaal, Explosions, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In his sophomore effort, director Duncan Jones explores the same theme of a man alone and at the mercy of shadowy machinations that was explored in his rightly praised debut effort, Moon.

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Man Arrested In Connection With Blast Outside Synagogue

AP | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Chabad Lubavitch, California, Greyhound Bus, Crime, Ohio, Cleveland Heights, Ron Hirsch, Fbi, Santa Monica, Explosions, Santa Monica-California, Cleveland, Cleveland Ohio, Blast, Los Angeles News

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- An Ohio rabbi who became suspicious of a man asking for a place to stay led police to the arrest late Monday of the suspect in...

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Police Say Blast Outside Synagogue Caused By Homemade Explosive Device

AP | By ANDREW DALTON | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Synagogue, Homemade Explosive Device, California, Santa Monica-California, Blast, Ron Hirsch, Santa Monica, Chabad-House-Lubavitch, Explosions, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- Police are hunting a suspect in a blast outside a California synagogue and community center that was initially believed to be an indust...

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Sucker Punch

Dan Persons | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Violence, Action-Adventure, Justice, Emotion, Sex, Carla Gugino, War, Emily Browning, Scott Glenn, Drama, Watchmen, Controversy, Death, 300, Success, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Satire, Science Fiction, Sucker Punch, Explosions, Zack Snyder, Art, Animation, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Steve Biodrowski and Dan Persons narrowly avoid a sucker punch to the solar plexus as they dodge and feint their way through an examination of Zack Snyder's new CGI-laced fantasy action pic.

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Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast: Super 8 Sneak Preview

Dan Persons | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Embodiment of Evil, Violence, Action-Adventure, Scream, Horror, Emotion, Sex, J.J. Abrams, War, Twilight Saga, Drama, Superman, Suspense, Controversy, Martin Scorcese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Success, Social Drama, Fantasy, Off Beat, Science Fiction, Skyline, Steven Spielberg, Explosions, Wes Craven, The Adventures of Tintin, Art, Super 8, Coffin Joe, Peter Jackson, Brad Grey, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Get a sneak peak at Super 8, the upcoming science fiction film from J.J. Abrams, on this edition of the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast, the weekl...

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Battle: Los Angeles

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Violence, Action-Adventure, Emotion, Michelle Rodriguez, War, Aaron Eckhart, Drama, Santa Monica, Death, Suspense, Battle Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Science Fiction, Ne-Yo, Independence Day, Explosions, id4, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Think of it as Black Hawk Down meets Independence Day -- a gritty view of the usual "war of the worlds" scenario. We've seen it all before, but does this film make it worth seeing again?

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Cinefantastique Podcast: I am Number Four With Andrea Lipinski

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Action-Adventure, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marti Noxon, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Emotion, James Frey, Explosions, Timothy Olyphant, War, Twilight, Alex Pettyfer, D. J. Caruso, Michael Bay, I Am Number Four, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Why "Number Four," you ask? Well, the film itself won't tell you, so if you want to find out, you should listen in as guest commentator Andrea Lipinski reveals all the details.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Gregg Araki on Kaboom

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Action-Adventure, Repression, Sex, Romance, Gay Film, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Success, Comedy, Gregg Araki, Fantasy, Off Beat, Satire, Science Fiction, Explosions, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Director Gregg Araki speaks about his newest film, Kaboom -- the story of an "ambisexual" college freshman who's getting premonitions of an impending apocalypse.

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