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Tired of waiting for the barbarians

By Erik Curren | March 30, 2012

Planet of the Apes shot

Ever since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, Hollywood has fed movie audiences on a steady diet of end-of-the-world thrillers. And from The Time Machine and The Planet of the Apes to The Road and The Hunger Games, for half a century moviegoers have hungrily gobbled up this fare like so many baskets of greasy apocalpytic curly fries. It may seem that people always and everywhere … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: apocalypse, Black Death, eschatology, Hollywood, Matthew Barrett Gross, Mel Gilles, rapture

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