Monday, October 07, 2013

Gravity

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Gravity belongs to the genre known as "one damn thing after another". Unlike most movies in this genre though, the question is not...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Face Off season 5

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I don't watch many reality show competitions but this is one I love. The show started off interesting and has improved over the seasons....
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Tolkien and Black Powder

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In LotR:The Two Towers, Saruman breeches the wall at Helm's Deep with black powder (aka gun powder). This point always bothered me but I...
Friday, July 05, 2013

The Lone Ranger

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I grew up watching reruns of the old black and white Lone Ranger show with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. In the 1980s they made a major...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Comics on the Nook

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It's been a while since I wrote about reading comic books on digital media. I stopped buying comic books years ago when I discovered Mar...
Friday, June 14, 2013

The Classic Superman

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There are all sorts of analyses of Superman based on the new movie. I'm going to look at the classic Superman - the Silver Age one. This...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

The Shadow of World War II

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Today is the anniversary of D-Day when the Allied troops invaded the coast of France. That got me thinking about World War II in general. I ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Iron Man 3 plot points

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Iron Man 3 is a well-crafted, exciting, and funny movie but there are some plot points that are not as obvious as they could be. Most of wha...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Superman at 75

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I admit, I lost interest in Superman years ago, possibly decades, but he is the first superhero I can remember. My first exposure to Superma...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Superman's S

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I always thought it was obvious - Superman wore a big stylized S on his chest to stand for Superman. In the early versions it was much more ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful - spoilers and subtle plot points

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Oz the Great and Powerful (OtGaP) is a fun movie. It is officially based on the books, not on the 1939 Wizard of Oz (WoO). Still, they manag...
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

Fighting Robots

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What happens if a couple of guys get together with some RC (Remote Control) model cars? Chances are, they will run them into each other and ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Reality and Historic Movies

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Movies based on real events are often nominated for Oscars. These are always fictionalized accounts of actual events. People know this but t...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Who can create?

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Recently the head of the School Board of the State of Ohio got into trouble after she used her private Twitter account to compare the curren...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The Battle of Hoth

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Wired has a series of articles on Star Wars including a detailed look at the Battle of Hoth which takes place in the first part of the seco...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Microsoft Surface and OS/2

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In the early 1990s, IBM had a great alternative to Windows called OS/2. One big problem with Windows at the time was that one program error ...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

The Hobbit the second time around

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We went to see The Hobbit, an Unexpected Journey for the second time over the weekend. Both my wife and I thought that it is a better movie ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Comic Book Marriages

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Very few comic book characters get married. Even fewer stay married. Probably one reason for this is the conviction that comic book readers ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Oscars - the animated movies

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The nominees for best animated feature film this year are: "Brave" , "Frankenweenie" , "ParaNorman" , ...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Books and EBooks

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Kathleen Parker has become the latest to bemoan the rise of electronic media over print. Like many, she has a sentimental attachment to ink...
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