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Well, its over. Finally. The 82 Annual Academy Awards have come to a close and, at the end of the day, The Hurt Locker came out on top, winning six of the nine Oscars for which it was nominated. The Iraq War film took home the statue for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing,Best Original [...]

This post marks my third consecutive year attempting to predict winners of the Oscars. The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be exciting as usual and, with the expansion of the Best Picture category to ten films, every movie has a shot at a golden statue. This year, the two favorite films come from two completely [...]

I’ve found that trying to create a list of the greatest Beatles songs of all time is an impossible task for a couple of reasons. Firstly, there are simply way too many amazing songs to try to put the best in order. I could pick 10 or 20 of my favorite Beatles songs (with difficulty), [...]

“The film’s over, it’s as simple as that,” thought director and writer Terry Gilliam’s after receiving news that his lead actor for his new film, Heath Ledger, had died. Gilliam received this shocking news on January 22, 2008 and, within two days, the film’s production was indefinitely suspended. It seemed as if a 30 million [...]

The greatest band you’ve never heard of, Them Crooked Vultures (aka TCV) is comprised of Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, and Queens of the Stone Age lead singer and guitarist Josh Homme. Together this tripartite, with the help of former QOTSA backup guitarist Alain Johannes during [...]

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I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to see a free, advance screening of Universal’s highly-anticipated film The Fourth Kind at Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall on October 29, 2009. The Core Junction is proud to bring you this review, a week before the film’s November 6 theatrical release.
It seems that horror and thriller [...]