How to Train Your Dragon – Movie Review
It only sounds like euphemism for *ahem* “self-pleasure.” In fact, How to Train Your Dragon is a surprisingly enjoyable lark of a film. Jay Baruchel voices Hiccup, the frail son of Viking leader Stoick (Gerard Butler). Their village is a comically cruel place cursed with constantly coarse weather conditions and frequent dragon attacks. In fact, […]
Hot Tub Time Machine – Movie Review
Hot Tub Time Machine. If those four words didn’t make you giggle then feel free to stop reading. There’s nothing for you to see here. Clearly a movie with a title like that won’t be scooping up any Oscars this time next year. Conversely, it’s a pretty safe bet that all parties concerned know that. […]
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hot Tub Time Machine is even more silly and absurd than you think and is a lot of fun but is a tad disjointed and random for its own good. Following a seemingly accidental suicide attempt, a group of friends go back to their old vacation stomping grounds to blow off some steam and reunite […]
Lost: Season 6 – Episode 6.9 – “Ab Aeterno” Recap/Review
The Richard Alpert episode has finally arrived and it does not disappoint and this episode essentially shows us how it all began in this story we have been watching called LOST. Picking up the night of Richard, Jack, and Hurley’s arrival to the beach a couple episodes ago the episode opens with Ilana telling the […]
Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era – Book Review
Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era by Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo definitely doesn’t buy into the myth that cloud-computing will bulldoze Microsoft into obsolescence and irrelevance within the next decade – that’s not to say that they won’t have many challenging obstacles ahead of them. With the resources, […]
Repo Men
In “Repo Men,” we find ourselves in a futuristic world where people with failing organs can purchase pricey artificial versions for themselves, instead of having to wait for a transplant surgery. But they better make sure they can pay the bill, because in this future it is OK for their collections department to hunt you […]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
This adaptation of the well loved Diary of a Wimpy Kid series finds the right balance of humor and sentiment to make a solid kids movie the whole family can laugh at and enjoy. Greg Heffley is the titles Wimpy Kid though he doesn’t quite know it. Greg thinks he is hot stuff and will […]
The Bounty Hunter
Bounty Hunter is the latest effort to sell a formulaic concept with the help of an A-List cast. Nothing you see on screen is funny enough or innovative enough to warrant the price of admission. Down on his luck ex-cop turned bounty hunter, Milo (Gerard Butler) is handed a once in a lifetime opportunity when […]