Tag: movies
member name: Paul M.
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July 19, 2008 06:37 PM EDT --
The Dark Knight
4/4 stars
Is WOW! sufficient? I can't remember the last time I went to a movie and was in utter disbelief at how far the filmmakers went. They pulled out all the . . .
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February 07, 2009 07:49 PM EST --
I’ve seen three of the Best Picture nominees for the Oscars: “Benjamin Button”, “Milk”, and “Slumdog Millionaire”. I probably won’t have time to see the others in time. At any rate, so far I . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:47 AM EST --
If you're buying XMas music from Amazon, sometimes patience is a virtue. The Boxmasters XMas album I bought last week for $8.91 is now on sale for $7.99. Also, the Tori Amos XMas album priced . . .
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December 16, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
Since it is the time of "best of" lists I've been doing a couple "best of" lists of my own. (And let's face it, it's an easy way to pick up a few points for doing very little.) Since it's . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
So here are the biggest trends according to Google:
1 obama copenhagen
2 chris henry
3 research in motion
4 champions league
5 weather forecast
6 avatar movie
7 rim
8 twitter . . .
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February 14, 2009 08:35 PM EST --
I’ve never watched wrestling in any of its forms, whether it’s the Greco-Roman style in the Olympics or the WWE style “professional” wrestling where they whale on each other with folding chairs. But . . .
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June 28, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
Here are some movie reviews I wrote for my Twitter account. It's kind of fun summarizing a movie in one sentence of 100 characters or less.
"The Spirit": Worst superhero movie since . . .
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July 17, 2009 04:35 PM EDT --
The Winter King
(Warlord Chronicles, Part 1)
by Bernard Cornwell
OK, most everyone should know the legend of King Arthur by now. If you don't, the basic summary is that there was once a king . . .
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August 10, 2009 04:17 PM EDT --
A week or two ago I saw a sale on Dell's website for a new mini Netbook computer for $199. The only hitch was that the keyboard on Dell's mini netbooks is smaller than a typical keyboard and as . . .
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August 14, 2009 03:48 PM EDT --
I'm going on vacation next week and so I decided to use up most of the stuff in my fridge and cupboards to make a pretty good, though probably not appetizing-sounding meal. The amounts of ingredients . . .
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December 09, 2009 09:49 AM EST --
Like "The Ice Harvest" that I watched previously, this is another film taking place during the holidays that is not a holiday film. Instead it's a dark comedy/crime caper about two hitmen who flee . . .
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December 09, 2009 10:12 PM EST --
First off it's important to note that "Terminator Salvation" qualifies as what I'd call a midquel. It's a sequel to some events of James Cameron's "The Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment . . .
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December 15, 2009 10:00 AM EST --
You could easily say the 00s were the decade of the superhero movie. There were a few before that with the original Superman and Batman franchises, but the 2000s saw a boom in the quantity and in . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:25 PM EST --
You can now buy my book from Barnes & Noble online, as well as Amazon.
Check it out here
For a description and sample chapter, click here
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October 04, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Last year director DJ Caruso and star Shia LaBeouf teamed up for an update of Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” that was not as good as the original, but still pretty good in “Disturbia”. Now the . . .
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August 15, 2008 04:59 PM EDT --
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
(3/5 stars)
This is the seventh John Irving novel in a row I've read and the last one for a couple weeks as I go on vacation; Irving novels are not what . . .
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September 27, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
Another Friday, another movie. This time I went to see "Burn After Reading" the latest film from the Coen brothers, the geniuses behind "Fargo," "O Brother Where Art Thou," . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
If you ever watched those old Frank Capra movies like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" or "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (NOT the horrible Adam Sandler remake) then you'll like "Flash . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:18 PM EDT --
I went back to the regular theater this week (not by choice so much as the second-run theater didn't have anything at the time I wanted) and watched a movie probably soon to be playing at the second-run . . .
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December 06, 2008 11:18 AM EST --
What with Thanksgiving and all it's been a couple weeks since I went out and watched a movie, not that anyone really noticed. Anyway, this week I went to see Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" . . .
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