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The Darjeeling Limited DVD Giveaway Winners! |
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Written by Mike
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
Well, our giveaway for The Darjeeling Limited is now officially over. Congrats to our big winner Wes F with the great pic below of him bonding with his brothers(and one cousin). One of Wes' brothers serves our country in Iraq and the other has an amazing hair helmet!
Congrats to our other winners Jeff M, Keith H and Rob L! |
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REVIEW: Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) |
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Written by Mike
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
Directed by: Robert C. Cooper
Starring: Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge
When I agreed to write a review for Stargate: The Ark of Truth I completely underestimated the difficulty of watching and following a movie that is pretty much the culmination of 10+ years of Stargate television shows. I REALLY like the original film as it's one of my sci-fi favs and I guess I had hoped that it would be more of a standalone story line but alas, no. Stargate: The Ark of Truth throws you right into a story line years in the making. To say that this movie can be confusing to someone not familiar with long history of the show is a serious understatment. There is a brief prologue piece you can watch the VERY rapidly throws backstory at you at a pace that you can barely comprehend but honestly I think that the prologue made things even more confusing since it was WAY too brief and dense to make sense to anyone who doesn't know it all anyway. Having said all of that I will attempt to rerview this film on it's own merits and in it's own context. What I mean by it's own context is simple, I don't hold a straight-to-video movie to the same standard as a Hollywood blockbuster nor do I hold a super low budget indie film to the same standard as a TV movie. I rate them as compared to their peer films and according to that measure, even as confusing as it was for someone not intimate with TV series, Stargate: The Ark of Truth is actually pretty good.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL REVIEW! |
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Written by Mike
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
Stardust (2007)
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mark Strong
I really love a great fantasy film. There are few genres that can truely just transport the viewer to a whole new world and make them completely forget the real world for a couple of hours. The unfortunate part is that there so few REALLY GOOD fantasy films. We have The Lord of the Rings, Willow, Dragon Slayer and Conan The Barbarian as well the semi-fantasy Harry Potter films. Other than that though, the genre for many years was almost exclusively populated by such awful "greats" as Deathstalker, Amazons and Barbarian Queen where the only real point of the film seemed to be to get women nude as often as possible... not that I was complaining as a teenaged male watching these films for my fantasy fix! The point though is that for many years there was nothing more than place holder films just barely keeping the genre alive. Thanks to the well deserved uber success of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings though, we have been treated to several good fantasy films in the last few years. I don't know if Stardust would have been fortunate enough to get made if it hadn't been for Peter Jackson laying the successful fantasy framework but MAN am I glad that Stardust did get made!
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