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  • Check It Out — Toy Story 3 out now

    Check It Out — Toy Story 3 out now

    Yes, maybe this isn’t *quite* our genre, but Toy Story 3 is out today.  Without giving too much away (having just come back from an early afternoon showing), it’s the darkest G-rated movie I’ve ever seen, but it easily stands alongside Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, and the rest of the Pixar oeuvre as [...]

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  • Check It Out — Ghost Rider sequel in the works

    Check It Out — Ghost Rider sequel in the works

    Nicolas Cage’s 2007 romp as the Spirit of Vengeance may not have been the best reviewed movie ever, but it’s still good to see favorite superheroes brought to life on the big screen.  Plans are now in motion on a sequel, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” which will feature Cage reprising the title role, and [...]

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  • Check It Out — Prince of Persia out Friday

    Check It Out — Prince of Persia out Friday

    Movie adaptations of video games have been hit-or-miss, but Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, based on the 2003 video game of the same name, has gotten some positive buzz, and it’s made by the same team that did Pirates of the Caribbean, so I think it’s worth checking out. Now as long as [...]

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  • Eulogizing Heroes

    Eulogizing Heroes

    “I come to bury Heroes, not to praise it. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

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  • Check It Out — Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull

    Check It Out — Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull

    Further adding to his nerd oeuvre, Hugo Weaving, famously known as Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings movies, V in “V for Vendetta,” and Megatron in the Transformers movies, has been cast as the Red Skull in the upcoming Captain America movie. The film is scheduled for release [...]

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  • Deus Ex Buffyverse

    Deus Ex Buffyverse

    “Does he exist? Is there word on that, by the way?” “Nothing solid.” —Holden Webster and Buffy Summers, “Conversations with Dead People” This may be scaring away my audience before I even begin, but I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school from third grade through high school. While I’m not the greatest Catholic, I [...]

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