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Iron Man: One Paragraph Review

Jon Favreau directing Iron Man and starring Robert Downey Jr. was all I needed to hear to get excited about this movie. When the trailer came out, it just raised my hopes even higher. His portrayal of Tony Stark as a self-centered alcoholic billionaire looked pitch-perfect — And I’m happy to say that the movie [...]

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Galactica vs. Barbarella

“Starbuck: Find Duran Duran Earth, and use all of your incomparable talents to preserve the security of the stars.”
This photo from GQ is wonderful, but it makes me want a whole series with the rest of the cast. Where Baltar as Duran Duran? Adama as President of Earth? Lee as Pygar? Chief Tyrol as Professor [...]

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Half-Life 2 Episode 1: One Paragraph Review

I was going to write a review, but instead I’m going to quote from an email Miles sent me, because he puts it better than I ever could:

“It cracks me up how schizophrenic it is between apocalyptic horror and tongue-in-cheek wish fulfillment. On the one hand: Alien slavers colonize the earth! They’re sterilizing humanity, [...]

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The Rules of Monster Movies

In the October 2004 issue of Wired, there was an article about these guys who work for the SciFi channel whose job is to screen monster movies to decide which ones get aired. Long story short, they decided they could do a better job than the submissions they got, and that’s how we got all [...]

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Galactica Season 3 Finale

A lot of people are going to be unhappy with this finale. Personally, I liked it, with a couple of things that kind of rubbed me the wrong way, which I’ll talk about in a second. Obviously, if you haven’t watched it yet, you probably shouldn’t be reading this.
First of all, as usual, I was [...]

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