I’m not going to write a long review, as there are enough others out there that I feel are on the money. In brief, Iron Man was excellent. Masterfully acted, cleverly scripted, story was engaging enough, effects were top notch; superb movie.
Jeff Bridges played an excellent villain. Totally well done. Robert Downey Jr… what can [...]
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Have you seen these Marvel/DC (Mac/PC) parodies? Haha, so good. I like this one the best.
Not the Xbox Live Arcade game that I love so much… but the just-about-life-size model X-Wing.
Start here.
Finish in a blaze of glory here.
The Pirate Bay sues Big Media
Published September 23rd, 2007 in IT Industry, Movies, Music and Recommended Reading. 0 CommentsThe Pirate Bay are a large bittorrent tracker. That means they provide tracking data so you can download bittorrent files, which are streamed from other people’s computers. They made a documentary recently about their experience with the Swedish police and the US government.
In a nutshell, by Swedish law they are providing nothing more than [...]
If you’ve ever played the Lord of the Rings games, namely The Two Towers, you’ll remember many moments of fighting vaste hordes of enemies, for ages and ages. Swing your sword, turn behind you, swing your sword, turn back in front, repeat.
This is what came to mind as I sat mesmerized by the glorious bloody [...]
I knew a bit about the dodgy dealings in the diamond industry before going to see this movie. My wife in fact does not wear a diamond on her finger; her engagement ring is adorned with a moissanite. But having now seen Blood Diamond there’s even more going on than I had realised.
I’d recommend you [...]
Halo Excitement Goes Way High
Published October 1st, 2006 in Movies, News and Video Games. 1 CommentI’m going to guess most of you have heard of the Halo video game series. It’s great. News to some might be the fact that Peter Jackson is Executive Producing the forthcoming Halo film. Well, new news is that Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh and working on a new Halo project, designed to [...]
My wife made love to a Canadian guy today.
I’m still deciding how that makes me feel.
We just saw Nacho Libre. Gold! Pure gold.
Saw Superman Returns last night. Let me preface my opinion of it by saying that I had very low expectations for this movie; the trailer really turned me off. That said… I thought [...]
The 5th of November. I just got back from seeing V for Vendetta. Two words: freaking wow.
The movie is based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore. It takes place some 30 years in the future, in a distopian England. The United States’ various wars eventually ripped the world apart, and the power-hungry religious-oriented leader [...]
Maija and I just finished watching North Country, with Charlize Theron and Sissy Spacek. Man… very powerful movie. Maija’s still wiping the tears from her cheeks, but at least they’re smiling cheeks (due in part to my kisses, naturally).
For those who don’t know, the film is set in Minnesota in the 1970s, and is the [...]
