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Review: Ghost Rider

Mark’s Rat­ing: 3.75 out of 5 Johnny Blaze a motor­cy­cle stunt rider with a car­ni­val sells his soul to Mephistophe­les in a bar­gain to cure his father’s can­cer. The next day Blaze Sr. dies in motor­cy­cle acci­dent. Johnny blames Mephistophe­les for his father’s death, but is still bound by his con­tract. Years later, Mephistophe­les calls […]

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Review: Pan’s Labrynth

Mark’s Rat­ing: 4 out of 5 A dark, bru­tal and depress­ing movie that touches the heart. Pan’s Labyrinth was imported form Span­ish (orig­i­nal title: El laber­into del fauno) and is a mod­ern fairy tale. Don’t let that fairy tale descrip­tion fool you, this is no film for young chil­dren. The set­ting is some­where in the countryside […]

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Review: Casino Royale

Casino Royale My rat­ing: 4.5 out of 5. Bah. I was plan­ning on writ­ing this up as a proper review but now I’m feel­ing tired so you’re going to get the bul­let point ver­sion. The lat­est install­ment in the James Bond film empire is Casino Royale. This also hap­pens to be the first install­ment of the […]

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Review: X-men, The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand My rat­ing: 2.75 out of 5. Yes­ter­day, the wife and I headed out to watch a mati­nee of X-Men: The Last Stand. I was plan­ning on writ­ing up a review of it for MovieCom­ment1. But when I got over to the site I found; I found he’d already writ­ten his own review. […]

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Ain’t Dead Yet

Today marks the com­ple­tion of my third decade on this planet and I am quite pleased to be able to announce that I ain’t dead yet. :D But worry not gen­tle reader, I’ll not be sub­ject­ing you to some passé ret­ro­spec­tive about my life. Instead, I’ll just recap today and today alone. I was up playing […]

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