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Movie: Pride and Prejudice

2008-07-19T22:25:47Z

I am so secure in my masculinity that I can actually admit to having watched Pride and Prejudice. This is a miniseries on two DVDs that Strix and I watched in two nights. She put it on our Netflix list, and I could have begged off of it, but I ...

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Movie: From Russia with Love

2008-07-16T03:41:25Z

Hey, long time no blog, right? A couple of weeks (okay, more like a month ago), we watched From Russia with Love, the second James Bond movie in the series, this one from 1963. The evil terrorist organization with no apparent raison d'être SPECT...

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Movie: Catch Me If You Can

2008-06-29T05:03:00Z

I was prepared to not like this movie much, mainly because movies glorifying con men don't really appeal to me, but this was a good flick. DiCaprio did a good job of playing someone pretending to be someone else, in fact several someone else's, ...

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Movie: Iron Man

2008-05-15T05:36:59Z

I couldn't find the right movie poster, so the one to the left is for an animated feature, not for the new movie with Robert Downey Jr. As most people who have seen this have said, the movie is a very fun ride. Downey's performance made the char...

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Movie: Brick

2008-05-07T17:59:19Z

This is an outstanding movie. The dialogue is quick, crisp, and intelligent, and is thoroughly rooted in the film noire, hardboiled-detective tradition. The fact that it's set in a high school seems to be incidental at first, and I thought that...

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Movie: Soylent Green

2008-05-05T03:23:40Z

Overacting, really bad stage fighting, and laughable costumes (like anything made in 1973), but you gotta love it. I borrowed this from a friend because I hadn't seen it in years and Strix had never seen it. Watching it again makes me want to re...

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Movie: Backdraft

2008-04-29T04:13:54Z

Stina had never seen this, so we got it from Netflix a while back, and I'm just now getting around to blogging it. It came out in '91, and I saw it probably not to long after it first came out. It stands the test of time, and while I think it's...

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Movie: The Bank Job

2008-03-23T19:39:54Z

Happy Easter! This is the day that Jesus came out of his tomb on the third day, saw his shadow, and went back in, signifying that he would be able to drive all the snakes out of Ireland for at least six more weeks. I think. Well, anyway, Happy...

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Movie: Finding Neverland

2008-02-21T06:13:50Z

Man, I've been busy, and now that I've started rehearsing for the next play even though the current one isn't finished, it's likely to be like that for a while. A few nights ago, Strix and I watched Finding Neverland. Johnny Depp plays J M Barri...

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Movie: Sweeny Todd

2008-02-03T06:32:50Z

This movie can really be summed up in two words: Holy Crap. I had seen the play once years ago, but had to leave at intermission because I was working nights and the play was very long. Of course, seeing half of the stage production cannot prepa...

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