Unreal Movie Review: The Expendables 2
“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.” Tyrion Lannister’s quote applies not only to dwarves and bastards,…
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When Real Tragedy Impacts Fictional Movies
Movies, like other art forms, are grounded in real life. Characters and settings, and even entire plots can be inspired by real-world events. Movies are frequently released with tag lines like “based on a true…
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Happy 80th, John Williams
On Saturday at Tanglewood, there was a big to-do celebrating John Williams 80th birthday (which actually happened on Feb. 8). A milestone for anybody, but for a national icon like Williams, it provided a unique…
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That Guy Actor of the Week: Michael Pena
Michael Pena is one of those guys you’ll always recognize on television or in a movie but somehow you kind of forget about him afterwards. Those are just the characters he tends to play. Still…
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How to Wallpaper Your House Like Dexter
For the modern artist/up and coming serial killer, have I got a home decor tip for you. That would be this photo wallpaper mural from Pixers. You can turn your house into a crime scene…
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Solving the Mystery of Android Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper
httpv://youtu.be/gPVzv6m1u-o Perhaps I’m the only one who has experienced this, but when I saw the trailer for Looper the first time, I thought “wow, that guy looks a lot like Joseph Gordon-Levitt.” Then I thought,…
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Damn, Tony Scott…
At this point, sad as it is, you come to expect tragedy from Hollywood. It’s a tough town, and produces more early deaths than it should. But the passing of Tony Scott is exceptionally haunting. The director…
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Breaking Bad Review: “Buyout”
Well last week, we had a bit of a disagreement. I believed a certain someone shooting a certain small child was a rather out-of-nowhere plot development that wasn’t justified. Many of you believed it was…
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Six Home Invasion Movies (Discussed During a Home Invasion)
It was a knock on the door, same as any other knock. Nothing indicated that opening the door would be any different this time than the thousands of times I’d done it before. It was…