Movies

Cultivate Connoisseurship

08.11.2010 Art

Do you feel like you’re always behind with EVERYTHING? Do you find that you can never get through your list of tasks, and worse than that, all of those other things in life keep nagging at you? Do you feel like you’re under pressure because your TiVO or DVR is full of recorded shows that [...]

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3DTV Takes Over? Not Quite Yet

07.07.2010 Future

Sometimes I see press releases and pronouncements that make such ridiculous claims that I have to stop and think about what they’re saying. This one claims that by 2013 that a full 86% of Plasma TVs will be 3D versions. On closer thought, they may be right, but it probably doesn’t mean what you might [...]

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Shut Up And Watch The Movie

06.22.2010 Movies

Last night my wife and I took advantage of an evening alone and went out for dinner and a movie. We had burgers at Five Guys and went to see a movie. We picked Splice. And I was reminded once again why I built a movie theater in our basement and why we rarely go [...]

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Living In A Sci-fi Future – Movies, TV, and the Theater

04.08.2010 Art

I loved Avatar. It was a hell of a lot of fun. But I’m not running out to buy a 3D TV. And I’m not going out to see every new 3D movie. I remember one of the worst movies I ever saw was also in 3D – The Treasure of the Four Crowns – [...]

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Off Topic Friday – District 9 Movie Review

09.18.2009 Movies

I love movies. Back when I was in grad school, when we were newly married and before we had kids, my wife and I went out and saw two or three movies a week. Sometimes I went by myself and saw three or four movies in one sitting. During that period I came close to [...]

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