Tag: review
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Review: Star Wars The Force Awakens (Spoiler Free)
After seeing that Star Wars: The Force Awakens was coming out the same weekend as not only my anniversary but also my move, I was pretty certain I wouldn’t get to see it until the following week. Fortunately for my sanity, my wife is also a fan and we managed to fit it into our…
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Book Review: A Call to Arms by David Weber and Timothy Zahn
While A Call to Duty was something of an introduction to a time before the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a major power, A Call To Arms takes the time to show the reader just how messed up things are. Politicians spend more time trying to manipulate the system for their own game than they…
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Boundless Optimism: Tomorowland Movie Review
I just saw Tomorrowland yesterday. This is a statement where the tense is correct but your brain pauses and says, “Wait, what?” The movie has become one of my must-haves as far as DVD/Bluray. Yes, it was that good. In Tomorrowland, they’ve built a movie which manages to look at the future in a way…
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie Review (With Spoilers)
I actually saw Avengers: Age of Ultron last week Monday, but I’ve been very busy so I haven’t really had a chance to post what I thought of it until now. At this point, most of you who read this blog have probably already seen it. If you haven’t, you should probably skip this review…
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Review: David Weber’s Sword of the South
David Weber’s new Epic Fantasy novel, Sword of the South, is up on Baen’s websubscriptions and I picked it up last week for some ‘light’ reading. I thought that I’d do a review of it, to give my impressions. I’ll preface this by saying that I read an eARC of this book. It’s not the…
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Exploding Heads: Kingsman Movie Review
Kingsman: The Secret Service is, in many ways, a throwback to the spy movies of old. It doesn’t hesitate to be self-referential, with references to over-the-top maniacal villains, bizarre henchmen, and suave and sophisticated spies. All the same, the action and violence are modern, with raw violence and and tightly choreographed fight sequences that flow…
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Mila Kunis Falls A Lot (Jupiter Ascending Movie Review, Part 2 Spoilers)
With part 1 of this review, I kept it as spoiler free as I could. However, I think the movie warrants a bit deeper look, both from the perspective of what they did right and also from all the stuff they got very, very wrong. Starting off… the plot was about as easy to follow…
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Mila Kunis Falls A Lot (Jupiter Ascending Movie Review, Part 1 Spoiler Free)
I went into Jupiter Ascending with somewhat mixed expectations. On the one hand, I already knew that the movie had been delayed for reshoots, re-edits, and stuck in post production for the past six months to a year (thus the delay in release). I already knew that the protagonist looked a little silly (I think…
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Second Star to the Right: Interstellar Movie Review (Spoilers)
I’ll preface this by saying that Interstellar is the best movie of 2014 that I nearly didn’t see. Why did I nearly decide to discount it? Well, the trailers did a terrible job of telling me what the movie was about. The trailers made it out (with me reading between the lines) that the movie…
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