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Eragon Review

*** Spoiler Alert *** I watched Eragon Saturday night. I did not have much to do and my wife wanted to watch something that she could watch while doing other stuff. So, I went with Eragon. Eragon fills just about every fantasy movie cliche they could find, but the whole thing felt rushed. In each […]

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A Scanner Darkly Review

*** Spoiler Alert *** I saw A Scanner Darkly Friday and thought I’d see if anyone else had seen it and if so what you thought of it. I rented it because I remembered the trailed looking cool with the whole thing done in an animated style. If I understood correctly they taped the whole […]

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Smoking Aces Review

*** Spoiler Alert *** I watched Smoking Aces over a week ago, but I’ve been holding off on writing a review because I just can’t decide if I liked it or not. It is not that I specifically did not like the movie, but it is more that the movie’s plot seemed like an excuse […]

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Children of Men Review

*** Spoiler Alert *** This past weekend I watched Children of Men on DVD. I had seen the trailer and a 30 minute show about the making of the movie on the SciFi channel so I knew it was a movie I wanted to watch. I liked Children of Men a lot, but not for […]

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The Prestige vs The Illusionist

*** Spoiler Alert *** I watched both The Illusionist and The Prestige in the last week, finally. Yes, I know I’m a few months late. For two movies set both set in the early 1900s, in Europe, about magicians they are very different movies. Despite the similar settings I was surprised how different the movies […]

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Amazon Unbox on TiVo Review

Amazon Unbox has been renting and selling Movies and TV shows for download on a computer for a while. They recently partnered with TiVo and added the option to download directly to your TiVo. This interests me a lot more than downloading to a computer. The only time I ever watch movies on a computer […]

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300 Review

*** Spoiler Alert *** I saw 300 today and I have to say that I really liked it. I’m not a movie critique by any means. As long as there is decent action and effects I probably like it, but 300 goes beyond having just a list of fights stringed together. The movie has a […]

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