I’m impressed with Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature. I’ve only watched two movies this way so far, but both times I never experienced the skipping that frequently happens when I view episodes of Lost online (via ABC’s website). Netflix’s displays the movies at near full screen. If I tried the same with Lost, the picture quality [...]

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What is it with Dungeons & Dragons movies?
The animated adaptation of Dragons of Autumn Twilight was a disappointment. While the movie stayed fairly faithful to the novel, its execution was horrible. The animation was choppy, the dialog awkward, the pacing stilted and the CGI stuck out like a sore thumb.
The character designs were influenced [...]

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My dad and I went to see Cloverfield yesterday. I’d seen the trailers online, played around with the viral marketing website, and read some early reviews, most of which were positive. At my wife’s birthday party on Saturday night, a friend who went to see it told me he hated it.
I loved it. The hand-cam [...]

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Superman is my favorite comic book hero. My first comic was a Superman comic. I own issues 1-100 of the second Superman series (the one John Byrne launched), along with a large chunk of other titles starring the Big Red “S” from the late 80s to early 90s. That run included the “Death of Superman” [...]

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The wife and I saw Transformers on opening night. We both have been anticipating this movie for quite a while. I grew up watching the cartoon show and playing with my dinobots. I still have Optimus, Bumblebee and Jazz packed away in a box somewhere. I was surprised to learn that my wife really had [...]

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