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Even though ‘Planes’ has the same style and animation as Pixar’s ‘Cars‘ and claims to take place in the same world, the Pixar name doesn’t appear anywhere on-screen in it. This little animated f...
Even though ‘Planes’ has the same style and animation as Pixar’s ‘Cars‘ and claims to take place in the same world, the Pixar name doesn’t appear anywhere on-screen in it. This little animated f...
With ‘District 9‘, Neill Blomkamp quickly became one of my favorite directors. He not only created a realistic world infested with aliens, the film’s acting, action and politically-conscious story were nothing sh...
This week’s trailers are for movies I wouldn’t automatically consider “highly anticipated.” Nevertheless, they appear pretty promising, especially the latest from the versatile Christian Bale. Stallone and ...
Is anyone else out there watching NBC’s ‘Siberia’, or am I the only one? The show has unfortunately gotten buried by the attention directed toward CBS’s popular ‘Under the Dome’, which airs at t...
I’m at the point where I’m willing to forgive ‘Under the Dome’ its sillier storylines just to see a little more revealed about the dome itself, or to watch another well-acted scene with Dean Norris. That...
ATTEN-HUT!! Listen up, grunts. It’s time to announce the winners of last week’s ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ contest. You want to know who won, don’t you? After all, knowing is half the battle.
I’ve never quite seen anything like Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary ‘The Act of Killing’. With its horrific subject matter, the film is extremely difficult to watch. Oppenheimer was born in my native state...
After last week’s episode, I felt that ‘The Newsroom’ was getting back to the quality we saw in the first season. However, Episode 4 (entitled ‘Unintended Consequences’) is so predictable and poorly w...
It used to be that the idea of calibrating a sound system was a mystical science that few attempted beyond flipping between preset modes on a stereo or surround sound receiver. These days, the process is a little better understood...
I’ve been complaining for a while now that this season of ‘True Blood’ has done a lousy job of identifying which of its many antagonist characters is supposed to be the ultimate villain. As things have shaken out...
The summer videogame doldrums die in fire this week as Nintendo finally releases one of its promised big Wii U titles. Meanwhile, the PS3 and PC offer their own intriguing, once-in-a-great-while gems. And just how often does a gam...
I don’t like to brag, but I have to say that I absolutely nailed it with last week’s recap of ‘The Killing’. I predicted the season’s final plot twist, and as the reveal happened this week, I kept thi...