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Over Memorial Day weekend, I, along with many geeks alike, was very excited to see X-Men: Days of Future Past.  Being Memorial Day weekend, I was busy, and unable to see the movie until Monday.  On Sunday, I went to pull up movie times, and found something very disturbing.  The front page

NOTE: Spoiler-free For the most part, I am not a Seth Macfarlane fan.  His humor generally goes for the lowest common denominator, and he stretches jokes out so long on Family Guy, it’s clear he’s too lazy to write enough material for a 22 minute episode of television. With this opinion of

I almost NEVER listen to music anymore.  My 64 gig iphone has about 28 gigs of music on it, and my collection is substantially larger than that.  However, for the last 5 or 6 years, my addiction to podcasts has grown so much, that I can rarely keep up with all my

NOTE: This overall review of Veronica Mars the series and movie is spoiler-free, touching briefly on main story arcs, but going into no specific details.   On March 22nd, in an effort to take more advantage of my Amazon Prime account, I decided to pick a tv show I’d never watched and

WARNING: This review/synopsis contains spoilers from the pilot of Star-Crossed The new CW show, Star-Crossed, was not even on my radar until I saw a review of it on io9 asking if it’s the new Roswell.  I always thought Roswell was a highly under-rated show that was much deeper than the “Aliens

NOTE: Spoiler-free outside of what is seen in trailers I’ve been looking forward to The Lego Movie ever since I saw the first trailer for it.  From a 2 minute preview, I saw that the makers of this movie (also the directors of the first Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs movie,

As long as I can remember, I’ve always been fascinated by voice acting.  Still watching cartoons as an adult, I love going to IMBD to look up who voices characters on things I watch.  Because of this fascination, when I read over a year ago that John DiMaggio (the voice of Bender

WARNING: General spoilers for episode 1 of Bitten are contained in this review. I know very little about werewolves.  They change at the full moon, silver bullet kills them, that’s about it.  After watching the series premiere of Bitten, I’m finding that, like with vampires, the rules seem to change from series

WARNING: This review will mentions spoilers of the first three episodes of Helix: 1. Pilot 2. Vector 3. 274 Ronald D. Moore secured his place in science fiction television royalty with the reboot of Battlestar Galactica.  Prior to BSG, he also has writing/producing credits on other series such as Star Trek: The

SPOILER-FREE (aside from general plot from the trailer) After seeing the trailer for Her a few months back, I thought the movie looked terrifyingly brilliant.  A lonely man named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) purchases a copy of the first ever Artificially Intelligent Operating System (who names herself Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson), who