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Harry Potter and the Bucket of Popcorn

As alluded to earlier, I went with the family to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Thanksgiving Day. I really liked it and I give it an Again! on my movie rating scale. I’m sure it was tremendously difficult to adapt such a huge book, but they wisely confined it [...]

The Batman Begins Drinking Game

I just watched the DVD of Batman Begins, marking the third time I’ve seen the movie. Looks like it’s still going to remain my favorite flick of the year, as gushed over in previous entries like this one. So, here’s a fun game to play next time you watch it. Take a [...]

Hollywood Strikes Gold

This weekend, I finally got a chance to see the greatest movie of our generation. And the name of that movie is…

Gratuitous Promotional Movie Tie-In

Now I expect an advertising fee from Lions Gate Films. I refuse to put any links up though, as the both the studio and film sites are very noisy.
Latre.

Escaping the Past

This weekend I saw the latest comic-book-to-movie blockbuster, A History of Violence. (Yes, though they haven’t advertised it as such, it is based on a DC comic book, err… “graphic novel”.) It’s a taut little character study (of not just the main character, but his family as well) of the type that I [...]

No Horsies Here

What can I say about Serenity that hasn’t already been said? Not much. No one can ever accuse The Cult of Joss Whedon of being non-vocal.
Back in 2002, being a big fan of Buffy and Angel, I was much anticipating Whedon’s new SF series Firefly, the failed TV series that Serenity is based [...]

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