House of Cards is a new original "TV" series that is not destined for any TV distribution channel. Instead, it was developed by, and is only available through, Netflix. Netflix posted the entire first "season," 13 1-hour episodes, on Friday.
(Is this the new thing?) Some of us, cough, watched the whole thing.
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posted by grobstein
on Feb 3, 2013 -
106 comments
It has been 30 years since it was first recorded, and almost that long since it was released as a
single and a
extra-long music video (alt. link:
YT), but
Thriller has remained at the top of lists for
best Halloween songs (
2,
3,
4,
5) and
best Halloween videos (
2,
3,
4,
5). You know
the dance, and you've read
Vanity Fair's extensive Thriller Diaries (
previously), or at least
Los Angeles Times' 25 Thriller facts, but have you seen
the almost hour long making of the video? Have you heard
the voice-over session with Michael and Vincent Price, with the bonus unreleased "rap" vocals by Price? You remember that
Vincent did Thriller just to make fun of himself, like he did when he
worked with Jack Benny and
Red Skelton, right? Or maybe you're in the mood for more of the comedic horror that Michael liked, such as
his collaboration with Stephen King,
Michale Jackson's Ghosts (HD, with Japanese subtitles and intro).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 30, 2012 -
19 comments
Sin Titulo (to page 1) is a webcomic by
Cameron Stewart. Mentioned and recommended previously on Metafilter a few times in the comments, it is now being updated regularly after a long hiatus, which makes right now a promising time to start following the story. It is a mystery thriller and it contains occasional depictions of violence, so it is not suitable for all audiences.
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posted by tykky
on Jun 14, 2012 -
10 comments
The title track on Michael Jackson’s hit album “Thriller” began life as a very different song - called “
Starlight.” WNYC's
Soundcheck gives us a listen.
posted by Fofer
on Jun 22, 2011 -
26 comments
For Graham Greene he was "unquestionably our best thriller writer". John le Carré once called him "the source on which we all draw". With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould. -
The writing of Eric Ambler
posted by Artw
on Jun 6, 2009 -
14 comments
http://www.otnemem.com is the first movie Web site that ever made me eager to see a movie I haven't heard a thing about. It won't open in the US till March, but it looks awfully clever, and I'm always up for a good short-term-memory-loss revenge thriller. And it's a site whose all-Flash version is better than the HTML version - another rarity. Also, the domain name is pretty clever - the movie's name spelled backwards, which turns out to be thematically and structurally appropriate to the movie.
posted by nicwolff
on Dec 21, 2000 -
10 comments
