Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in a new summer popcorn movie called Edge of Tomorrow which is alike a mashup of Matrix, Groundhog Day, and Starship Troopers and is based on the novel by
Hiroshi Sakurazaka (桜坂 洋) called All You Need is Kill (オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・キル).…
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WWDC 2014 starts in about a week. I’m sure that by this time next week there will be a line around Moscone West waiting to get in to hear what new offerings Apple has for their community. I was lucky enough to have been in that line over a dozen times going back to the late 90’s when the event was held in San Jose.…
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I went to see the new American ゴジラ film with some trepidation. This is a character that I have watched all my life on the little and big screen. It reminded me of going to the theater in 1985 when I dragged my cousin Paul to see the Ramond Burr cut of
Return of Godzilla.…
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Jeremy Robinson’s sequel to last year’s Project Nemesis is a worthy successor. It takes the characters introduced in the first novel and turns up the volume. Instead of just one kaiju, we have five battling it out in the Washington D.C.…
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I’m very irked by the recent update to AppleTV. There are three new “apps” on my TV for History Channel, A&E, and LifeTime. The trick is that they are hobbled unless my cable company is DirecTV, Optimum, or Verizon FiOS. Since I do not subscribe to any of those, I’m locked out of the main content.…
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I went to watch this week’s episode of
The Big Bang Theory off the DVR and notice that the episode number was not sequential from last week’s episode. Dish showed
The Indecision Amalgamation as episode #161 followed by
The Relationship Diremption as episode #164.…
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The latest entry in the Marvel universe is the sequel to Captain America. Unlike Iron Man, the Captain Rogers series uses a subtitle instead of a number. This episode is called
The Winter Soldier. It is a very strong entry in the series.…
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Some video from the Showtime International Dance Competition in Desoto this weekend.
Imagine a government agency whose job it is to protect the world from disruptive technology and you have the basic premise of Daniel Suarez’s fourth novel, Influx. What started out as a good idea in the 1940’s when there were new radical ideals like nuclear power and rockets has evolved into an agency that resembles Men in Black 65 years later.…
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The trailer for the new Godzilla movie is out. We still are not getting a good view of the big guy. This is good. They are saving the reveal for the theater. We get to see more than we did in the teaser but we still have not gotten to see his classic profile.…
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Below are the videos taken at Crowd Pleasers 2014 Dance Competition. These were taken via a single handheld camera.
Jumper is the first of a series of novels by Steven Gould about a boy who finds out that he can teleport to any place that he’s previously been to. It is at its core a super hero origin story. The 2008 movie of the same name borrows the characters and the basic premise but leaves out the majority of the plot and character development.…
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When I first heard about the Alfonso Cuarón movie
Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, and the voice of Ed Harris, it sounded like a space version of
Open Water and I wasn’t interested. I heard that it was stunning to see on the big screen or in iMax format but I managed to resist.…
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