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Torchwood – BBC – TV Series – 2006 thru ….

05/29/2010

A bunch of sexually tense people shout at each other while fighting a new alien an episode  plaguing Earth through a time rift in Cardiff, Wales.  Cardiff?  Exactly.

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Lasagna with – Trader Joe’s Tomato Basil Marinara Sauce

05/29/2010

This was something of an experiment and another chance to pop open a bottle of wine.  While walking the Trader Joe’s isles, I noticed a section of spaghetti sauces.  Since the price was only a little more than the cost of ingredients for my home-made marinara sauce, I decided to put Trader Joe’s to the test.  In a nutshell, it worked pretty well, but is probably better used for a quick pasta sauce than for using in lasagna.

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Shutter Island (2010) – Movie Review

04/10/2010

U.S. Marshall Leonardo DiCaprio, troubled from his experiences during World War II and the death of his wife, finds himself in the last place he needs to be, a mental institution for the violently criminal insane investigating the disappearance of a patient who killed her three children.  To say, they don’t make them like this anymore, would be an understatement.  This is among the best of its genre ever made. (more…)

Cat People (1982) – Movie Review

03/27/2010

This is an eqally strange variation of the 1942 strange movie of the same name, with many actors you’ll recognize when they were much younger.  Overall this is a good movie.  You might want to go to IMDB or some other source of movie information to read a synopsis either before or after viewing the movie.  The movie explains the one thing you’ll need to know about 3/4 of the way through the movie, but you’ll have to pay close attention.  Up until then, you’ll need to be a really good movie fan to understand everything that’s happening.  But, in the end, that anticipation of finding out how and where the story is going, is why we watch the movie in the first place.  We won’t give away the story here.

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Julie and Julia (2009) – Movie Review

03/21/2010

Cute as a button Amy Adams (playing real life Julie Powell) finds the freest of spirits Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) through a cooking book, with a suprising amount of very tasteful sex thrown in.  Would you expect anything but very tasteful sex in a movie about cooking?

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Alice In Wonderland 3D (2010) – Tim Burton

03/14/2010

Take fantasy master Tim Burton, add in a classic fantasy story, and what do you have?  A fairly average movie.  Not average by normal movie standards, but average compared to our expectations.  We expect something unique from Tim Burton every time, but this time we find what seems to be a collection of recycled characters and ideas, down to the music.

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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – movie review

02/10/2010

Every culture has its Wild West. The good guys, the bad guys, gunslingers, peacemakers, those somewhere in the middle, vast unspoiled expanses of nature and love stories that will never be. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is China’s Wild West movie, but in a way that’s never been done here or there.  This puts it on my list of 10 best all-time movies.

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Spaghetti with Meatballs – Trader Joe’s Meatless Meatballs

02/05/2010

This is an easy one and one you probably don’t need to read.  However it does point back to the marinara sauce recipe which is what’s really important.  With a little crusty Italian bread to soak up any excess sauce on the plate, a glass of red wine, and Billy Joel playing on the stereo, it doesn’t get much better.

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Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce

02/05/2010

This is an easy one and one you probably don’t need to read.  However it does point back to the marinara sauce recipe which is what’s really important.  With a little crusty Italian bread to soak up any excess sauce on the plate, a glass of red wine, and Billy Joel playing on the stereo, it doesn’t get much better.

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Shaun Of The Dead – movie review

01/30/2010

Two buddies trying to never grow up, share a flat (yes it is British) and somehow ineptly survive a newly infected zombie world with a surprising ending.

Simon Pegg, co-author and star,  notes, we didn’t want to make a comedy zombie movie, we wanted to make a zombie movie and comedy movie at the same time.  Whether he succeeded, of even if that’s possible, is left up to you to decide.  The end result, however, is a movie worth watching for anyone who knows what a zombie is.

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