I usually only look forward to 2 or 3 movies a year.  The Dark Knight would be one of those 2 or 3 for 2008…so much so that I decide to join a friend at midnight for the first showing of it in a local IMAX theater.  I haven’t been to a midnight movie since […]

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There are bad movies and then there are bad movies.  And then there’s The Mist.  Based off of a Stephen King novella, The Mist details the devolution of a group of small towners that have barracaded themselves in a grocery store after a mysterious mist has descended on their town.  That doesn’t sound too bad, […]

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This week’s movie rant centers on Vantage Point, the Rashomon-style terrorist thriller.  I’m a sucker for chronologically-challenged movies as well as terrorist-laden and crisis-filled movies, so I knew I was probably going to like this one.
The film shows the same scene, the assassination of the President during an anti-terrorism summit in Spain, from various…er…vantage points, […]

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I was in Borders over the weekend looking for a book to purchase.  This was probably the third or fourth book I’ve bought post-college…for me, navigating a Border’s is kinda like John Travolta accidentally wandering into a good movie.  After about 20 minutes of searching, I settled on a book and proceeded to the check-out […]

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