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6 Dec 2009If Pandorum’s goal is to create another cult classic like Event Horizon, the finished product is far from perfect. Pandorum asks the audience to follow along a psychological thriller where the crew of the space ship Elysium awakens to deal with memory loss, hallucinations and creepy humanoid creatures. Lieutenant Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Corporal Bower [...]
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18 Oct 2009There are lots of movies featuring zombies (if you doubt that, you can look at the listing on Wikipedia), and Zombieland is one of the easiest to recommend comedic zombie films. The movie follows the story of Columbus, played by Jesse Eisenberg, who has avoided human contact as much as possible and now that an [...]
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1 Aug 2009Sacha Baron Cohen is Bruno, a disgraced gay fashion reporter from Austria that seeks fame in the United States through a series of staged and not-so-staged events, very reminiscent of his previous movie Borat.
The movie is pretty short (at just 80 minutes) but if you have an open mind, and realize Bruno is not [...]
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21 Jun 2009Nicolas Cage is in another movie where future predictions come true. In Next, Nicolas Cage could constantly see the future. In Knowing, he discovers a piece of paper that has been buried for 5 decades that can somehow predict all the major disasters, including the end of the world. He tries to prevent the disasters [...]
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7 Apr 2009Fast and Furious is the fourth entry in the car racing franchise (although you wouldn’t know that from the title). I guess Fast 4 Furious doesn’t make much sense in the naming game. All you have to know is that, unlike the past 2 entries, both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are back in L.A. [...]
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2 Mar 2009The worst thing that a comedy could do is to make you bored, and Role Models certainly succeeded in boring me until the very end which was a recreated medieval pretend battle between warring “nations”. Of course, citing that as my highlight can tell you already how boring the rest of the movie was. The [...]
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18 Feb 2009The best way to describe Quarantine is by the movies it was inspired of. Think of this movie as I am Legend meet Cloverfield meet Blair Witch Project. The movie follows a TV reporter named Angela Vidal as the camera crew tags along a fire crew as they are called into action. They get to [...]
With Zest, the executive chef Eric Eckard tries to marry traditional Italian flavors with somewhat modern American cuisine, and the result is surprisingly disappointing. I visited the restaurant during the busy Valentine’s day dinner service, and what a service it was (more on that later).
First the food: I started with the traditional fried calamari that [...]