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I'm not a fan of hyperbole...but Awake is, without a doubt, the best show I've seen on TV in a long time. However, the bean counters at NBC have already cancelled the show. Tonight's season finale will also be the series finale. Detective Michael Britten survives a horrific car crash with...
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05-24-2012
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Filed under: action, suspense, tv shows, accident, thrillers, movies, drama, dying, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, christopher nolan, al pacino, car crash, sleep, alternate realities, awake, dreams
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Lately, my reading time has been spent in Westeros , a world created by George R. R. Martin for his series, A Song of Ice and Fire . My son is a longtime Martin fan, and many library customers are as well: all are anxiously awaiting Book 5 in the set. Meanwhile, HBO is producing a TV series based on...
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02-21-2011
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Filed under: audiobooks, fiction, sequels, Science Fiction, Fantasy, series, J K Rowling, Patrick Rothfuss, action, speculative fiction, Mercedes Lackey, George R R Martin, Eoin Colfer, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sylvia Louise Engdahl
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While channel surfing several weekends ago, I happened upon Naked Gun 33 1/3 airing on Comedy Central. I used to love the Naked Gun series, with Leslie Nielsen portraying a bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin. It made me recall some of the other "classic" (I use that word subjectively) spoof films...
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09-15-2009
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... Dan Brown 's latest installment in the Robert Langdon series, The Lost Symbol , will hit your local library's shelves tomorrow. Enjoy, and let us know what you think!
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First off, I don't care how tough of a rear wheel-drive car you have, wheelies are pretty much impossible in a car that has an engine under the hood. Even Fieros don't do wheelies, let alone V-8 muscle cars from the 70's, so you can understand my initial disbelief while watching the most...
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I had never heard of Vantage Point (2008) when my son brought it home. He had seen previews on other DVDs, and thought it looked interesting. I wasn't even planning to watch it, figuring I'd just continue reading my book. Well, it caught me right away, and 90 minutes later, it was over, and I...
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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 with his sister Ellie, until one day when he receives...
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12-15-2008
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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 series. Season 1 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor...
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12-05-2008
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How can a movie gross $625,000,000 worldwide and yet get a 38% rating at Rotten Tomatoes ? One could say that there's no accounting for taste, but in this case I agree with the general public. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of this DVD before its official release date on Tuesday. What...
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Redbelt , written & directed by David Mamet, is not your typical martial arts movie...it has very few action scenes. In fact, calling it a "martial arts movie" is a bit belittling, as it is first and foremost a drama. While it started extremely slowly, I ended up getting drawn in and loving...
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11-10-2008
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Loved it! My son had told me that this was the superhero action movie of the year -- NOT The Dark Knight -- and now I know what he means. The good guys weren't perfect, the bad guys weren't Satan personified, and the plot unpredictable and halfway intelligent. Robert Downey Jr obviously had a...
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Most bank/casino/vault/car heist flicks follow a pretty generic formula (see Ocean's 11, The Italian Job, Gone in 60 Seconds, et al): Protagonist decides he wants to steal something. Protagonist assembles a team of wacky miscreants, each with their own special "talents". More planning....
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I must preface this review with the fact that I'm only 25 years old. I did not get to experience Adam West's Batman during its bat-heydey in the 60s. However, I do have fond memories of going to grandma & grandpa's (they had cable!) as a kid, watching reruns on their HUGE 27-inch console...
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09-11-2008
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I Am Legend was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 12th. I recently watched the Blu-Ray version, and while the picture quality, audio, and special effects were incredible, overall I was left unimpressed. As the third cinematic adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 science fiction classic, I Am...