Movie Review – Sanctum
Universal Picture’s “Sanctum” follows a small group of cave explorers who get trapped in a vast cave system after a monsoon floods most of the caverns with water. The film is in 3D, so it’s intended to be a thrilling and claustrophobic adventure. Are the walls closing in? Well, they are if you’re one of the unlucky people stuck in a theatre watching this spelunking dud…
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New@Redbox Review: Middle Men
Let’s put it simply: this film is (purportedly) the story of how internet pornography came about. It starts out humbly enough: two idiots – Wayne and Buck (played by Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht) – come up with a great idea on how to quickly acquire new means of satisfying themselves via the internet (“Who pays for stuff on computers? That’ll never work!”) when their old VHS tapes just won’t do. Unfortunately, what begins as an exciting, coming-of-industry tale a la Pirates of Silicon Valley quickly becomes a case of an overly-ambitious film overreaching its grasp.
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Spartacus : Gods Of The Arena Part 4
Another episode of the hit series Spartacus has gone down on Starz and, as expected, things are still moving along at a very good clip.
This article does contain spoilers so make sure you’re either caught up or don’t mind before you read on.
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Nerds Rejoice – Zooey Deschanel In New Fox Pilot
Zooey Deschanel of Elf, (500) Days of Summer and nerd crushes everywhere has signed on to do a Fox comedy pilot. The show, currently without a name because the original title “Chicks and Dicks” was too awesome for Fox, will follow the ups and downs of a clumsy girl who moves in with three guys. If that isn’t a zany situation for comedy, I don’t know what is!
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New@Redbox Review: Paranormal Activity 2
Seems like just yesterday that the hype for the original Paranormal Activity was at a fevered pitch. Produced on a microscopic budget and winning over Steven Spielberg, the film was released to an extremely small number of theaters. The viral marketing pushed people to ‘petition’ Paramount to get the “extremely scary” film in their town. Kelly and I went to screen it right as they began to open wide and our theater was packed clean to the aisles. The film eventually grossed over $100m and ended up displacing Saw as the go-to American horror franchise. So after all that hoopla, how does its sequel hold up?
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L.A. Noire Tops The R.O.B.’s Most Wanted List!
Well, the boys at RockStar have released another video about their upcoming crime thriller L.A. Noire. I watched it. After I changed my pants, I watched it again. I have to stop, now, because I’m running out of trousers.
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The Internet Strikes Again!: Bankruptcy At Borders
Gosh darnit, internet, you’ve gone and ruined something else! Whether it was Hulu and television, Netflix and DVDs, Napster and music, or Amazon and its Kindle with tangible books, you’re just up to no good! Well, to be fair, this was pretty much Borders’ fault.
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Sony to Fondle Hackers Computer
A judge ruled yesterday that George Hotz must surrender all his computers to Sony for them to inspect them for any jailbreak stuff. WTF Sony? You guys tweeted out the jailbreak code, just patch the shit and move on… Read the rest of this article…
My Love Affair With @Twitter Is Ending
I remember it like it happened yesterday: I was sitting on the bow of a dinner yacht over a sunny lake in Minnesota when I got my first followers. It was July 2008 and my flip phone erupted with a beep and Twitter had notified me that my good friends @graphicnapkin and (his girlfriend) @mrlivedog were now following my tweet stream. They were, in effect, voluntarily listening to me and my thoughts. Maybe it was because they were tech-y friends who wanted to be nice, but it doesn’t matter, history is history. Let me back up and set the stage a bit, though:
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1000 Employees Walk out of Nokia on Strike
1000 employees, that’s 1/3 of Nokia! They are pissed about the “partnership” with Microsoft because they know that it’s not really a partnership and more of a, thanks we got Nokia for free deal. What can we expect for Nokia now? Read the rest of this article…
