Old link, but I’m still trying to catch up… Mark hit the nail on the head here… Though I think the blame is shared between the retailers and the content owners, this is more to do with retailers than the latter. But there is a new world emerging… Streaming Video. And I’m not talking about [...]
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Scotty down Pegg[ed] 0
“She can’t take much more captain! I’m giving her all she’s got! We need to get to the Winchester!” From the “that suddenly improved the stakes” department comes news that JJ Abrams remake of Star Trek picked up Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shawn of the Dead) to play Scotty! Yes, they are going back to [...]
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pale blue dot 2
When I was about 9 or so, my grandmother gave me an old hardback edition of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. That was really the start of my interest in space in general and my love of theoretical literature from the likes of Graham Greene and Stephen Hawkins. Its pretty woefully out of date at this point, [...]
here we go 1
Speak of the devil, here is a wonderful little site that tries to identify which movie reviewer you should trust (or is at least most compatable with your likes). Unfortunately, I haven’t seen about 50% of the movies listed… It did say I was most compatible with Roger Ebert, so I get the feeling it [...]
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need another roger ebert 2
Ok, I need a recommendation. For years, my sole source of quality film reviews was Roger Ebert. On roughly 90% of his reviews I agreed with. I always appreciated the fact that he knew what the film was trying to be. If it was a summer film whose purpose was simply to entertain, he respected [...]
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a tale of two sequels 0
Ignore all the critics who opine about a lack luster Pirates 3. Go see it. It is a great summer popcorn movie. Obviously over the top, cgi driven, but clever and fun. Anyone who gave this movie a bad review was expecting way to much — or thought that because the first movie was a [...]
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Spider Man 3 – curse of the too 0
The pun here is definitely multi-layered. This movie suffered from many, many things. Too much action, not enough plot/story/characters. Too over the top. Too much cheese. Too simplistic. Too many villians. Too fast. Too much quick-editing (which is quickly becoming a personal peeve of mine). Even at its core, it was following Spider-Man 2, in [...]
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