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Like any good cult action flick worth its weight in fake blood and heavy artillery, director Troy Duffy’s 1999 film “The Boondock Saints” was skewered by critics and largely ignored by audiences upon release. Written as a knee-jerk reaction to the crime and moral depravity unfolding just beyond Duffy’s front door, his cinematic ode to vigilante justice took years to garner a solid following. Slowly seeping into the lexicon of frat houses across the nation via limited re-releases and DVD distribution, the bullet-riddled spiritual journey...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

Cinematic classics you secretly cherish are celebrated. The Coolidge’s 9th Annual Halloween Horror Marathon features a range of films, from “The Blob” (1988) to cult classic “Night of the Creeps” (1986).Doors open at 11 p.m., Saturday, October 31.  $10 double feature, $20 marathon...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...favorite procrastination tool is hitting the big screen. The evolution of Facebook is currently being converted into a movie entitled “The Social Network” to be released in 2010. Directed by David Fincher, the film hopes to build on Facebook’s cult following and is counting on the popularity of the social networking site among 16-25 year olds to increase its revenue...

Author: By LI S. ZHOU, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sun's Out, Guns Out | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...favorite procrastination tool is hitting the big screen. The evolution of Facebook is currently being converted into a movie entitled “The Social Network” to be released in 2010. Directed by David Fincher, the film hopes to build on Facebook’s cult following and is counting on the popularity of the social networking site among 16-25 year olds to increase its revenue...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cast For “The Social Network” Announced—Let’s Be Real, We Are Disappointed | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...Google is in an interesting phase. Basically it has all the money in the world, which it has used to hire the smartest people in the world, whom it has unleashed in an apparently only minimally managed orgy of R&D. As a result, it's been spinning out cult hits and noble failures at a furious rate: Orkut (big in Brazil!), Picasa, Knol, Docs, SketchUp, OpenSocial, Chrome and Android. But it hasn't produced a lot of homegrown category killers. It's not that Google's products aren't innovative. They're just not friendly enough or sexy enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Wave: What's All the Fuss About? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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