Next Sunday, HBO begins season 3 of Game of Thrones. The show is based on George RR Martin’s epic Song of Fire and Ice series. I ran across the first episode as HBO whets our appetite for the show. The first episode is done very well: It introduces all major characters with their most strengths […]
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Oz the Great and Powerful was Disney at a twisted best. This story serves as a prequel to the Wizard of Oz and introduces all relevant characters, settings and story line. It begins in black and white Kansas, turning to color once the “wizard” is in Oz just as the 1939 movie did. The black
Infinite knowledge is not the same thing as wisdom. I went to see Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein through UCSB Arts and Lectures. He had much to say, not only about memory but also about the current state of the education system. Being able to Google and have info available is not the
The 2013 Academy Awards are over. Will we remember Seth MacFarlane’s “We Saw your Boobs” routine? Thankfully I did go to see some films this year. Life of Pi got best cinematography, visual effects, musical score and director. Skyfall tied with Zero Dark Thirty for sound editing plus Adele won best original song for Skyfall.
Based on the Young Adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural love story much in the vein of Twilight but with witches rather than vampires. Set in the deep south, where civil war re-enactments are the highlight of life, the soon to be witch Lena moves to town and
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