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"One Magic Christmas"
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on Monday, December 22 2008, 7:03pm
Everyone has favorite Christmas DVDs. My favorite comedies are "Scrooged" with Bill Murray (since all I had to do was look at Murray and I would start guffawing) and "Christmas Story" (since it is set in Hammond, which is where I grew...
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"The Day the Earth Stood Still"
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on Wednesday, December 17 2008, 4:04pm
I must have watched the 1951 Robert Wise sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still" 10 times as a child. It was one of my all time favorite movies. So as soon as the first ad for the remake flashed on TV, I was hooked. Last weekend I forked...
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DTV 101 (part 1): The "Digital TV Transition"; Converter boxes (coupon requests due by 12/31/08!)
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on Friday, December 26 2008, 3:15pm
As stated at DTV2009.GOV , "At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting." Is this gibberish to you? Do you realize that some...
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"Chuck" is about a nerd that becomes a spy...essentially my life story
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on Monday, December 15 2008, 11:50am
In the television show Chuck , Charles "Chuck" Bartowski plays your typical 20-something computer-geek, stuck in a dead-end job at Buy More's Nerd Herd (a less-than-subtle parody of Best Buy's Geek Squad). He lives an uneventful life...
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"Dexter" and his dark roots
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on Friday, December 19 2008, 9:54am
I've been watching the hit Showtime series "Dexter" on DVD and have been tracing the genealogy of this "lovable" serial killer. The "Dexter" series, based on a 2004 novel entitled "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by...
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Doomsday, wrathful robots, other cheerfulness in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
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on Friday, December 5 2008, 9:38am
Being a self-proclaimed sci-fi geek, I love the Terminator movies. With three theatrical movies, and a fourth coming in 2009 ( Terminator Salvation , starring Christian Bale!), Fox decided to capitalize on the series' success with a spin-off television...
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And Then I Found ...Then She Found Me
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on Wednesday, December 10 2008, 1:35pm
Think you're having a bad day? Helen Hunt's April has just been abandoned by her husband, Matthew Broderick, her adoptive mother dies, and she is approached by a stranger who informs her that her birth mother, Bette Midler, a famous talk show...
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"Mongol: the Rise of Genghis Khan"
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on Saturday, December 13 2008, 12:16pm
This is the best movie I have seen in a while! I watched it twice in the same day. I will state right up front that this is a "foreign movie." Made by award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov and filmed in China, Russia and Kazahkstan,...
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The Spirit of the Beehive
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on Tuesday, December 30 2008, 7:07pm
Thanks to a recommendation by my friend, I watched a stunning film this weekend. Set in a Castilian village somewhere in early 1940's rural Spain, this movie has won international acclaim as a masterpiece - labeled one of the greatest Spanish films...
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"The Squid and the Whale": absorbing family drama (not a science documentary)
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on Tuesday, December 30 2008, 2:49pm
After seeing it mentioned on one or two best movie lists, I decided to check out this 2005 film although I wondered if I would enjoy its story about a 1980s Brooklyn couple's decision to divorce and the resulting damage to their two sons. I was swayed...
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"Burn After Reading"
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on Friday, December 26 2008, 5:28pm
I guess the ads tipped us off that this was not your run of the mill spy thriller, but let me assure you that nothing about this Coen Brothers movie is run of the mill. Following the dark "No Country for Old Men," the brothers have returned...
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Two Weeks (2006)
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on Saturday, December 27 2008, 5:58pm
Two Weeks (2006) is about four grown siblings that return to their mother’s house to be with her while she is dying from ovarian cancer. There are wonderful poignant performances from all the characters, all of which are played by actors that always...
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