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Ricardo Montalbán died today. Montalbán’s memory is forever imprinted on the Star Trek collective consciousness as Khan Noonien Singh. First in the episode from the original series, Space Seed, and then in the movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I worked at a video store in high
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In Vienna, Indy becomes smitten with Princess Sophie, daughter of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. His flustered efforts to spend time with her nearly land the Jones family in the middle of a diplomatic incident. Heartsick, Indy seeks advice from the esteemed members of the world’s first ever psychoanalytic conference,
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I'm told that I have a somewhat strange taste in movies (mostly by my lowbrow, wanna-be film critic friends). What my friends have yet to discover is there is often an unintended epiphenomenal, or emergent, quality to so-called "B" movies was neither intended nor understood by
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Only occasionally do I see a movie so good that I feel compelled to write about it. I saw The Last Mimzy over the weekend and it is a beautiful story; it’s a story of hope and the simple love of a child. It is also a story of
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As many times as I’ve read Dune and watched the several versions of the movie, I’m still left guessing what Frank Herbert was up to. I haven’t read anything about Herbert’s life but I’m guessing he spent some time in either the Middle East or
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I watched the movie Saw III this weekend. I’ve seen I and II also, but this one was interesting because it contained more of the back story, the motivations of Jigsaw. For a person to seem truly evil their past and motivations must remain hidden so the reader or
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Two solid conclusions that come out of modern mathematics and physics is that all matter is connected and that once two particles come into contact with one another, they are forever connected. Another conclusion, from chaos theory, is that events that seem completely unrelated and inconsequential can be connected in
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It's only a matter of time before Battlestar Galactica becomes a major motion picture. Why? Well, it's not because of the special effects (which are good) nor is it because of the acting (which is not always so good) - it's because the writers
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So, what really happens if you decide to follow the white rabbit? The struggle for normalcy, consistency, and predictability unravel the deeper into the rabbit hole you fall. What used to be straight lines and nice sharp angles blur into curves and ever stretching parabolas. The good and bad news
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“I’m stuck. Does it get easier? No. Yes. It gets easier. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. Yeah. I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be. You know? I tried being a writer, but…
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When Carl Sagan died, the world lost a treasure. After a two year battle with bone marrow cancer, Sagan died at age 62. His influence on my generation is hard to measure. As a kid, I remember Cosmos coming on PBS for the first time. I begged my parents to
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“I just don’t get this. You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple. Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love. There