Category: Media
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Ender’s Game – Might it FINALLY Happen?
If you know me at all, you know I’m a huge Orson Scott Card fan, with my favorite book of his always alternating between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. The idea for an Ender’s Game movie has been in Hollywood for years, at one point looking like Wolfgang Petersen would get it done. …
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Kid Movie Reviews – Coraline
I finally got to see Coraline last night, on TV even though I have a DVD copy, and enjoyed it immensely. If you are not familiar with it (or the Neil Gaiman book it is based on), Coraline Jones is an 11 year old girl who craves her parents’ attention. Especially since they just moved…
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Friday Finds – Vicious Krakens
I’ve been seriously sick pretty much all week, so there isn’t much this week. Hope to recover over the weekend so I can get back after it. NaNoWriMo? Should I subject myself to this again? – Apparently so. Movie Review – Real Steel – Quite entertaining. Links: Krakens be crazy. Flying power generation, very cool.…
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Movie Review – Real Steel
I took my son with me to see Real Steel last night. Much like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this was a movie that hit my radar late. I mean, I knew about it, and probably made the jokes everyone else made about Rock’em Sock’em Robots. It wasn’t until reviews started to come…
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NaNoWriMo? Should I subject myself to this again?
Why am I considering this? Shall I torment myself yet another year? Yeah, actually, I think so. Looking at the 10 Types of writer’s block I linked earlier, I think I might have a way past the ones that typically take me down. I have ideas, and I think I can strangle my inner critic,…
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Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable
By now, you may have heard of DC’s mass reboot of most of their comic books, and some of the expected backlash. A new spin, though, is the shall we say gratuitous sexyfication of females that occurred along with it. You can read this response to what’s happened to Starfire from a 7 year-old comic…
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Friday Finds – Downy Canadian Dinosaurs and Colliding Galaxies
Hey everybody, hope you had a fun week. Here’s the posts from this week: Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D – Time did seem to stretch out before me in this, for sure. Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II – *snore* – Huh, what? I wasn’t sleeping after staying…
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Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
You can file this under “Movies Mike saw so you don’t have to”. I had a pair of Fandango passes that had to be used by Friday, and this was pretty much the only movie left in theaters that was age appropriate. ‘Appropriate’ might actually be a stretch, as vomit/fart/poop laden ‘comedy’ isn’t really appropriate…
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Friday Finds – Robot Octopi and Arctic Airships
A light week this week, due to the holidays and not being home much. Raising a Reader – Getting boys to read. But that does leave plenty of room for links! Star Wars:Â Heir to the Empire 20th Anniversary Edition, a fine gift for the SW geek in your family. A horribly incomplete list of…
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Friday Finds – Psychic Benefits and the Silmarillion
Hey all, hope you had a good week. I’ll be out of the loop a bit this weekend, though I might actually be able to do my fantasy football draft (wooo!). Here are last week’s posts: Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: Birth of the Federation – BOTF is a solid 4X game, considering the…
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George Lucas is Murdering Star Wars
I have to get this out. I gave Lucas the benefit of the doubt when the new trilogy came out. I went and saw the first two in the theaters, thinking “they can’t be as bad as people say”. They were, pretty much, especially Phantom Menace. I shrugged when he added a CGI Jabba scene…