Once again one of those little red Netflix envelopes graced my mailbox this week. This one was one we ordered based off of a trailer we saw before another movie. I present to you my review of Death at a FuneralThe movie begins with a funeral. In fact, 90% of the activity in the movie…
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Movie Review: Dan in Real Life
Once again one of those little red Netflix envelopes graced my mailbox this week. This time it was a movie both my wife and I wanted to see.It took a while before the acting style of Steve Carell caught on with me. I’d seen The Office a time or two but it wasn’t until the…
Movie Review: Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers is a non-fiction movie about a teacher who inspires her at-risk students to greatness. The Netflix jacket has a little bit more information on it but that is all that you need to know now.Starring Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell this movie is set in the inner city. Gruwell is a new teacher…
Movie Review: Stardust
>When this movie came in the mail (Netflix.com) I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that it was over two hours long. My wife picked it out in part because of the big name actors (Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer) in the cast. tonight we watched it.Deep in the countryside…
Digg and the Pirate’s Dilemma
I have recently been reading an excellent book by Matt Mason titled The Pirate’s Dilemma. This book talks about how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.The book is very well written and researched. The core theme behind the book is how the culture of piracy (that’s you and me) causes change in the capitalist world. While…
Movie Review: Next
I just finished watching this one (Thank you Netflix) and I have to say I liked it… a lot!The movie stars Nicolas Cage as Las Vegas magician Frank Cadillac (real name Chris Johnson) who just happens to be the real thing hiding out in plain sight. Julianne Moore plays a very obsessive FBI agent named…
Movie Review: Enchanted
This weekend my family and I went to the movies. I wanted to see I am Legend but I was out voted. Instead we saw the new Disney movie Enchanted.Enchanted is a new spin on the fairy tale story of the evil queen not wanting to lose her throne. Her stepson Edward, the prince (James…
YouLicense – the Online Music Licensing Marketplace
When most people think of music licensing they think of the RIAA, lawsuits and poor little old ladies being sued for all they own because someone downloaded a terrible song. What if there was an alternative? What if artists did not have to go the way of the RIAA to get their music out there?There…
Wii Review: Boogie
Are you ready to Boogie?Electronic Arts just released its new Wii game Boogie this August. It came out at just about the same time as Mario Strykers Charged so no one gave it a lot of attention, except for me!I went to the game store to pick up a new Wii game that weekend and…
Anime Review: Cowboy Bebop
Wondering why I’m going off in the anime direction today? Think I might have lost it? Think I’m taking the blog off on another tangent like with the Pokemon? Fear not! what I am going to bring to your attention today is the awesomeness that is the anime series known as Cowboy Bebop.Cowboy Bebop is…
Movie Review: Shrek the Third
This weekend, my family and I went to see Shrek the Third. We enjoyed the first two movies in the series and the trailers looked good for the third one. That and we ran out of things to do over the long Memorial Day weekend on Saturday.Let me tell you right away that the trailers…
Underdog on the big screen?
This past week, I’ve been seeing commercials for a new live-action movie coming to theaters soon. No, it’s not a new action flick. No, it’s not one of the many new horror movies coming out soon. And no, it’s not one of the thousand sequels coming out this summer. No, it’s actually….Underdog.Now, growing up I…