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The Sandman: Brief Lives – A Book Review
I thought Season of Mists was my favorite The Sandman volume until I read Brief Lives. Brief Lives absolutely has it all-drama, action, comedy, romance, and philosophical ponderings. It focuses upon Morpheus rather directly-unlike other volumes where sometimes he exists within the stories only peripherally-as he helps his sister Delirium track down their brother known…
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Ed Wood – A Movie Review
I’m a big Tim Burton fan, and when Burton and Johnny Depp get together, it’s always magic. That’s why I always felt bad about not seeing the movie Ed Wood. Released in 1994, I simply never got around to watching it, but after hearing about how good it was, I finally decided to sit down…
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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy – A Book Review
The first volume of what’s known as The Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses encompasses what I love about McCarthy’s writing. Set in the late Forties, All the Pretty Horses follows teenage Texan John Grady Cole seeking a better life for himself in Mexico. He travels by horse with his slightly older friend, Rawlins,…
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Eastern Promises – A Movie Review
I really enjoyed Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, so when I heard they were teaming up again for Eastern Promises, I had very high expectations. Eastern Promises offers a powerfully subdued yet intense performance by Viggo Mortensen as a Russian driver/enforcer working his way up London’s most notorious Russian crime…
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The Heartbreak Kid – A Movie Review
A remake directed by the incorrigible Farrelly brothers, I really expected to like The Heartbreak Kid. After all, it stars Ben Stiller, so we essentially have the same team who brought us There’s Something About Mary. Unfortunately, while this movie had a few really funny visual gags, the movie as a whole disappointed and I…
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3:10 to Yuma – A Movie Review
While the premise of this western is fairly straightforward, it is anything but simple thanks to two actors who give us their absolute best. Russell Crowe, playing a role he was born for, is Ben Wade, a charming, debonair, magnetic thief and murderer. Christian Bale plays Dan Evans, a dismembered Civil War veteran and small-time…
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Did I Write About This Already … Like Twenty Years Ago?
I know I just turned 31, but it’s a little too soon to be losing my mind, isn’t it? I mean, time travel is pure theory at this point, yeah? Because some weird things are going on which make me wonder if I’ve been thrown back into the eighties and nineties. I flip on…
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