Now Reading
Posted on April 24th, 2011 by Todd W
And…moving on to the next book. Embedded.
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Now Reading
Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Todd W
Not bad so far.
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300 – The Review
Posted on March 16th, 2007 by Todd W
How do I tell you of 300? Despite the apparent simplicity of the movie (come on, it’s a gorefest), it is actually quite complicated. There are so many different ways this movie can be viewed, with all of them being valid. One can find in equal measure reasons to hate it or reasons to love [...]
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Spartans!!
Posted on March 13th, 2007 by Todd W
More detailed review coming. Short take – I never knew such carnage could be so beautiful.
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V For Vendetta
Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Todd W
I saw this over the weekend, and I’m still not sure what I think of it. I recall back when it was released, the movie generated a lot of press over blatant criticism of the Bush Administration. In seeing the movie, I’m not quite sure how one arrives at the conclusion that this film is [...]
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The Common Virtue
Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by Todd W
I’ve been plowing through Pacific War material over the past month, mostly because actions there get lost in comparison to the European Theater. My own knowledge is spottier than it should be, so soaking up some of these details has been a good exercise for me. Iwo Jima should be known to about everyone. Next [...]
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The Battle of Midway
Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Todd W
Midway: The Incredible Victory Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan Time has a way of plastering over history with what comes to be known as conventional wisdom. Today, the American victory in the Pacific has an aura of inevitability to most people – how could a nation the size of California hope to beat the [...]
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See Saw Profits
Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Todd W
Might the Saw franchise be the most profitable movies in the modern era? Production Cost Box Office Receipts (worldwide) Saw $1.2 mil $102.9 mil Saw II $4 mil $144 mil Saw III (as of 31-OCT-06) $10 mil $39.6 mil Saw IV (Halloween 2007) TBD TBD Source – Box Office Mojo They could run this out [...]
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A Matter Of Life And Death – A Review
Posted on October 18th, 2006 by Todd W
The Beast is back. A Matter of Life and Death (henceforth AMOLAD) is the 14th studio album from Iron Maiden, and marks the third studio album since Bruce Dickinson’s return as the lead singer. Long time Maiden fans have to pause and marvel at the concept: thirty-one years after the formation of the band, they [...]
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How To Tell When You Have Watched Too Much Jet Li
Posted on August 31st, 2006 by Todd W
Last night, I watched Hitman. Tonight, I popped in Contract Killer. It’s the same movie… I mean, the same movie – as in the same film released under a different name and with English dubbing. Maybe it’s time to lay off the Chinese cinema?
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Crusade
Posted on August 26th, 2006 by Todd W
On occasion, television executives make a heartless decision to screw with a new series, mix up the airing order, put it in poor time slots, and then cancel it before it really forms an audience. In cases like Firefly or Boomtown, you’re forced to question their thinking. In a case like Crusade, you realize that [...]
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Judas Unchained
Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Todd W
Peter Hamilton writes bricks. I first encountered Hamilton from the Science Fiction Book Club. They were selling the first four books of the Night’s Dawn series as two volumes: The Neutronium Alchemist and The Reality Dysfunction. Later, The Naked God (two books again in one volume) came along to finish off the series, which is [...]
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The Punisher – A Review
Posted on August 6th, 2006 by Todd W
Short review – two hours of my life that could have been better spent cleaning my house gutters with my tongue.
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Dan Brown Is Not An Idiot
Posted on July 27th, 2006 by Todd W
Wannabe writers are jealous souls. I imagine that actually publishing a book doesn’t remove that jealous gene, but I’ll write about that on the day I cross that threshold, if ever. For now, I’ll confine myself to raging impotently against the injustice represented by Sue Grafton, the prolific estate of V.C. Andrews, or Dan Brown. [...]
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Aeon Flux
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Todd W
I grew up in the eighties and nineties. MTV was a staple, back when they actually showed interesting content. Peter Chung’s Aeon Flux was a bizarre little anime short that popped up from time to time on Liquid Television, and I was immediately intrigued. Here we had a story without background, depicting a strange world [...]
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Boomtown
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Todd W
I seem to be a sucker for cancelled television shows. I don’t watch a lot of television in real time. Before the DVR, I rarely committed myself to a show. Seriously, who can ever make the time to be at the assigned channel, at the assigned time, and be sure to avoid any interruptions? I [...]
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Rainbows End
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Todd W
I am a huge fan of Vernor Vinge. A Fire Upon The Deep was a spectacular experience, and A Deepness In The Sky literally moved me to tears at more than one point. I scrounged eBay to pick up some of his older out-of-print books. I am an unabashed fan. Therefore it pains me to [...]
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Domino
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Todd W
Guy Ritchie, call your office. I mean, come on. This has to be a Guy Ritchie movie, right? You’ve seen Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, or Snatch? If so, you’ll ‘get’ Domino in the first three minutes. I loved LSTSB and Snatch. I didn’t love Domino. Domino is the ‘true’ story of the super-model-turned-bounty-hunter-turned-OD-victim [...]
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The Da Vinci Code
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Todd W
Yeah, I read it. Shame on me. You have to be living under a rock to not know about this book. For good or ill, it has driven even the reading-averse to a bookstore to plunk down some cash. Anything that sells like this warrants a closer examination from someone who wants to be a [...]
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The Skinner
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Todd W
This is the fourth Neal Asher book I’ve read in quick succession. My reviews so far have ranged from indifferent to boring, and I’m sorry to say that this one is no different. Sometime back I mentioned that the best science-fiction right now was coming out of Britain. I still think that is true, but [...]
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