Articles by Chris Gramlich

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  The Princess Bride: Dread Pirate Edition

  Rob Reiner

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Nearly 20 years after its release, The Princess Bride escaped its initial fate as "another Wizard of Oz” (meaning, originally, no one saw i...

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  Superman Returns

  Bryan Singer

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Even non-comic obsessed fans have a sense of the long journey from the utter failure of Superman IV: The Quest For Peace to this restart fr...

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  Hope Where There Is No Hope

  BOOK

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  "It’s basically like this: the world is horrible and it sucks but you can’t give up,” says Michael D. Williams on the seemingly contradicto...

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  Various

  Giant Killer Shark: The Musical

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Apparently, when John Williams scored that other giant killer shark-inspired tale all those years ago (something that rhymes with "maws,” I...

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  The Melvins

  Houdini Live 2005

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  After being invited to play their brilliant Houdini record (their first record for then label Atlantic Records) in its entirety live for th...

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  Domino

  Tony Scott

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Un-viewable, self-indulgent, seizure-inducing mess or misunderstood work of genius? Well, critics definitely picked answer number one (show...

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  Akimbo

  Forging Steel and Laying Stone

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Ignoring the metal parodying visuals and title (yes, we get it, metal is funny and infinitely open to ridicule, wow, no one has ever done t...

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  Various

  The Killer in You: A Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  Painting with a brush in broad strokes, it’s generally better if a band (bands) is going to cover a song that it be far removed from their...