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  • Clearing the Netfix Queue

    Netflix is great. I love being able to rent movies for as long as I want, and being able to pick from such a diverse...

  • American Idol 2010: Top Twelve... Eleven... Ten... whatever.

    My last few posts have been way too serious. Time for some candy-flavored pop culture treacle! At its best, American Idol is the pinnacle...

  • Avatar

    Avatar (2009). 162 minutes, Twentieth Century Fox. Written and Directed by James Cameron. When I first went to college in 1980, I started out...

  • Halloween Double Feature: Orphan and Frankenstein

    Orphan (2009). 123 minutes, Warner Bros. Pictures. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Frankenstein (1931). 70 minutes, Universal Pictures. Directed by James Whale. Last night was...

  • The Wiz: What The Hell Happened To Michael Jackson?

    The Wiz (1978). 134 minutes, Universal Pictures. Directed by Sidney Lumet. The Wiz came out in the fall of 1978. I was a junior...

  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua

    Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008). 91 minutes, Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Raja Gosnell. This is not so much a review as it is a...

  • Watching Watchmen

    Watchmen (2009). 163 minutes, Warner Brothers. Directed by Zack Snyder. I'm surprised they made this movie. I'm surprised I like this movie. I'm surprised...

  • The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight (2008). 152 minutes, Warner Brothers. Directed by Christopher Nolan. I didn't catch this one in the theater this summer. I was...

  • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

    The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). 88 minutes, Columbia Pictures. Directed by Nathan Juran. Special Effects by Ray Harryhausen. From the land beyond Beyond,...

  • The Big Bang Theory

    The Big Bang Theory. Mondays on CBS, 8:00pm ET/PT As a genre, the sitcom has seen better days. For the past four years, since...

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