Over the last week I’ve taken time out of my usual 12 to Midnight schedule to get caught up on Netflix movies that have been gathering dust on my entertainment center.
Last week I watched I am Legend. This was better than I’d expected, and I didn’t feel the letdown that most people reported 3/4 of [...]
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My movie-watching seems to go in cycles. Weeks or even months have gone by during which my only exposure to movies is what I put on for the tadpoles to watch. Then there are times like last week.
For one thing, I finally got around to watching 300. This movie had risen to the top of [...]
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Major kudos to Sillybean, who brought to my attention that one of my favorite writers, Steven Brust, has posted a free Firefly novel online. You can get PDF or doc, with other formats promised in the near future. Consider this "celebrity fanfic". I can’t wait to start reading it.
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Apparently The Golden Compass movie performed much more poorly in the opening weekend box office than was expected. I’d heard that there was a campaign to keep people away because it was anti-Catholic, but I didn’t pay much attention to it. After all, 1) I’m not Catholic, 2) we’ve heard the same kind of rhetoric [...]
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