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The Expendables 3 movie review: like you care what I think

Tue, Aug 12, 2014
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In the vast conspiracy of stupidity that has overtaken pop culture, the disparagement of this movie by a film critic becomes an endorsement of a sad sort.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past movie review: time for hope

Mon, May 19, 2014
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With its time-twisting plot, sci-fi soapiness, powerful humanism, and to-die-for cast, this is the summer blockbuster done with elegance and heart.

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Her movie review: manic pixel dream girl

Mon, Jan 06, 2014
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It’s the rise of the machines as romantic dramedy, and the Singularity as romantic tragedy. It’s the nicest, gentlest sci-fi horror film ever.

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Doctor Who thing of the day: Dalek at Planet Hollywood in London

Tue, May 22, 2012
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Just chillin’ with the Terminator…

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the Game of Thrones spoof of that Time cover that makes me go ewwwww (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, May 20, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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it’s been 22 years since Jim Henson died… (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, May 17, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Another ‘Terminator’ movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger: a good idea or a machine uprising to be put down?

Thu, Apr 28, 2011
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I’m really beginning to think that Hollywood is hopeless, that it will never again give us another original idea, and perhaps we should welcome the robot apocalypse.

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G-Force (review)

Mon, Aug 03, 2009
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If there was a very small child whom I wanted to introduce to the magic of movies, I could do a lot worse than this harmless but rather cute action fantasy…

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May 22: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Thu, May 21, 2009
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We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you fear leaving your underground bunker will draw the attention of the machines. But you can have something close to that multiplex experience at home with the proper application of rental DVDs. In fact, you might … more…

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question of the day: Does Christian Bale’s potty-mouth offend you?

Mon, Feb 09, 2009
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I’m being facetious, of course. I’m sort of surprised that an actor getting angry on a movie set is news at all, but there we are. McG, director of the new Terminator movie during the shooting of which Bale went off on a tirade, defended the actor at Comic Con in New York this weekend: … more…

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