This movie has no star power whatsoever. In fact without going to IMDB the most recognizable actor is “The mom from ‘That 70’s Show’” (Debrah Jo Rupp).   That being said, this film has already achieved beyond it’s expectations having gained wide release without big name in the marquis. But don’t let that scare you away, […]

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“People are willing to do stupid and dangerous and horrible things in exchange for fame,” says journalist Gabriel Snyder, in acclaimed director Ondi Timoner’s newest documentary We Live In Public, “and Josh is driven by that quest more than most people I know.” The Josh Snyder is speaking of is Josh Harris, the unconventional visionary […]

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For many years I have listened to experts talking about the plight of humanity, there are too many people and not enough food. The solution offered almost always involved harvesting the riches of the Oceans. But do the Oceans still have those riches to be found? That is very much the question that the award […]

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In the opening minutes of No Sweat, a new documentary from filmmaker Amie Williams, Ben and Jerry’s cofounder Ben Cohen explains his reasoning for creating the clothing manufacturer SweatX: “Some of us started to wonder if there might be a way to take the sweat out of the shop.” Similarly, Canadian entrepreneur Dov Charney founded […]

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This movie, with some moderately well-known actors in the cast, never seems to have had a general release before going to DVD. As such, and strictly speaking, it is not about the Donner Party itself, trapped high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains over the winter of 1847-47. The plot really focuses on an element of […]

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Spoiler Alert: It’s the Bible!

If you didn’t guess that from the previews already, it’s not much of a spoiler.   Denzel Washington is Eli, a traveler in post-apocalyptic North America.  From the first scene the spectacular action shots are reminiscent of some Zack Snyder directed graphic novel come to film.  But instead of this film doesn’t […]

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After taking on issues not quite relevant to today’s political culture, and remaking an iconic film that had already been twice remade, Peter Jackson returns to what made him an award winning director: making movies out of popular books.  And he finally gets it done it in under three hours.
“The Lovely Bones” tells its story […]

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Really, “10 Things” was so dry, witty – and yet so sharply observant about high school and the denizens within, it’s almost as if it were another John Hughes movie, ten years after. Now it’s another ten years after that, and it has aged marvelously well, all things considered; even the minor characters are sharply […]

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James Cameron is credited with making some of the most spectacular films in recent memory: Titanic, Terminator and Terminator 2.  Moreso he may be known for making some of the most expensive films in history.   Avatar squarely falls in the latter category and does so for many reasons.
Avatar is the story of Jake Sully (Sam […]

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Ever since whatever happened with Kobe and whatshername in Eagle, Colorado, I loved to make jokes about it.  Then the United States Olympic basketball team was losing in the gold medal game to Spain and I made a deal with the cosmos that if Kobe led the team back and won them a gold medal, […]

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I loved boxed sets.  Make no doubt about it.  That’s why I’m such a sucker for TV on DVD, because it always comes in a boxed set.  I’ll run to Best Buy because I genuinely need something, but will end up walking out with the next two seasons of a show I wasn’t sure if […]

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I saw this show the very first season it was out.  I was just watching television and this show happened to come on and I didn’t turn away.  The show didn’t make a huge impact on me, but a couple of years later, my roommate told me I had to check this show out and […]

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Win PUBLIC ENEMIES on DVD
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Number of discs: 1
Rating: R (must be 18 or older to enter)
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Run Time: 140 minutes
ON BLU-RAY™ HI-DEF & DVD DECEMBER 8th!
In the shadow of the Great Depression, criminal minds are thriving — notorious men like John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), “Baby Face” Nelson and “Pretty Boy” Floyd […]

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This probably goes without saying since it’s a movie made by Pixar, but I think this film is an absolute delight.  It’s funny, it’s very sentimental and touching and there are little bits of humor than you have to be fast to pick up on.  That’s a perfect combination and now it’s ready for you […]

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When I saw the first batch of promotional materials for this movie, I had no clue at all what I should be expecting.  All the signs features those bright balloons and it all I could gather was that it involved a guy sending his house floating through the air with some little kid along for […]

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I have heard that they are going to be making a ninth season of this show, but that it will be about Zach Braff as Dr. John Dorian.  Now, I don’t know if that is true or not, but I can only hope that it will in fact not be true.  The entire cast is […]

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I greatly enjoy stand-up comedy.  I usually go see a live comedy show from a nationally known comic artist every couple of months or so.  I don’t go to many open mikes, although some of my friends have been pressuring me to start performing at them.  Suffice it to say that comedy is a pretty […]

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Period dramas are the types of movie that you do if you are Keira Knightly or if you want to be taken seriously as a candidate for a movie award.  Some of them are genuinely good, but the vast majority of them are just an excuse for people to dress up in poncey outfits and […]

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I’m not much into magic or magical anything.  That eliminates most fantasy writing, a lot of video games and a host of other things.  The one exception I do make is the novels and novellas of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the father of Magical Realism.  Also, I like the Force and the mystical power that guides […]

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I was not surprised when Fox first said that they would be making several sequels to the original movie in this series.  It was a truly delightful movie and they have done a great job of keeping each new movie exciting.  They do this through making each individual story compelling and by introducing new characters […]

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If a scary movie is all about making you jump, that’s just stupid.  Anything can make you jump, so that doesn’t take intelligence or anything else other than an understanding of timing.  I went to a haunted house last week for Halloween, a huge one that took up an entire warehouse building along with numerous […]

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Pyramid schemes have been around since the pyramids were originally built. I am not quite as old as the pyramids, but I have been around the block a couple of times. I think it was in the early 70’s when I received a letter from someone I had never heard of. It suggested that I […]

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After the success of both Alan Weisman’s 2007 novel The World Without Us - an investigative and imaginative exploration of what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared from the face of the Earth - and the subsequent 2008 feature-length History Channel documentary Life After People, it’s no surprise that the History Channel spun the underlying […]

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I have loved the work of Ryan Reynolds ever since I first saw him on screen.  He’s hilarious, he’s one of the best looking guys out there and he is married to Scarlett Johansson.  What could possibly get better than that?  He has monumental talent when it comes to being a comic actor, but it […]

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A few months ago, I was spending some time with my sister, just sitting around and watching classic television on WGN America.  In my opinion, that is the best channel out there for viewing those sometimes regrettable television shows that were a huge part of our collective past.  So, in the course of watching television, […]

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The Jonas brothers are pretty much omnipresent these days.  The three of them are all over the place and it looks as though their cultural influence is only growing.  First there was the CD and then the appearances on different television shows and then the tour and the movie about the tour show.  I thought […]

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I always like it when characters from one television show make an appearance on another television show.  It’s a great kind of nod to another show and it really brings in a whole lot of different facts than can be played off of.  The first instance of this I can remember is when the Bionic […]

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I am really not a fan of scary movies at all.  I can watch exploitation movies until the cows come home, but when it’s straight up scary, I can’t deal with that.  The movies of Eli Roth and Rob Zombie have never been a big deal for me, because they’re fun and evil and just […]

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Here is the number one clue that this DVD is going to be incredible – major funding for it was provided by none other than the National Science Foundation.  This project is also connected to the American Museum of Natural History.  Both of those groups are very great and have managed to be attached to […]

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The six television shows that are included in this DVD are some of the best out there when it comes to children’s television.  My personal favorite is none other than Thomas and all of his tank engine friends.  With winter fast approaching (at least where I live), your children are going to be indoors a […]

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