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Review – Movie – Julie & Julia

2009 – Meryl Streep, Amy Adams So, there aren’t really too many movies about cooking.  There’s probably others but the only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Ratatouille.  If you haven’t figured out yet based on the cooking them of this film and the title containing the name Julia, the movie is about Julia Child. It’s also a movie about some woman named Julie Powell. I say also because this film is essentially two movies in one spliced together in 10 minute segments.  This is possibly the movie’s biggest drawback.  The plot of…
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Review – Nintendo Game & Watch Collection (NDS)

I posted a photo of this game once I finally managed to acquire it to Flickr and it received the comment question “Is it worth it?”.  You see, Game & Watch isn’t your standard Nintendo DS game, it can only be acquired (in the US) through the Club Nintendo Points promotional system.  If you’re unfamiliar with how this works, most Nintendo titles on DS and Wii comes with little slips that include a code.  When you register the game on the Club Nintendo website, you get points.  I’m not positive but I think it’s something like 40 points per game. …
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Review – Movie – Coraline

It’s a little hard to describe this movie without mentioning Alice in Wonderland.  So I’ll just get it out of the way.  This is more or less Alice in Wonderland meets Nightmare Before Christmas.  Not surprising on the latter part since it’s done by the same guy who did Nightmare Before Christmas. With this comparison out of the way, the genre that best describes it would be “Children’s horror” I suppose.  It’s actually rather creepy in many parts, especially in the final third or so of the film.  It’s also the final third where things feel like they fall apart…
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Review – Movie – Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I generally like to avoid giving away too many spoilers for anything new so I’ll break this review in half so to speak.  I’ll preface this a bit with my thoughts and feelings before going into this movie. Based on almost no evidence, the original thought was “Hey look, it’s River City Ransom the Movie”.  These character all come off the way Kunio and company would if they were live action players in a film with a plot slightly deeper than “Fight across the city to rescue your girlfriend’.  In addition to the seemingly gratuitous River City Ransom influence, there…
2009 Reading List
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2009 Reading List

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Published: 1968 | Pages:244 My Rating: 4/5 Description: Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card Published: 1985 | Pages:324 My Rating: 5/5 Description: But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability…