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Category Archives: Movies

May 20, 2014 Tuesday 10: Movies of 1994

1994 was apparently a good year for movies. I could easily have made this a top twenty list, and a couple of these movies would make my All-Time Top 10 list easily. 10. Little Women – I can admit it: it’s Winona Ryder that puts this one on the list.  A few years ago I suspect […]

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May 6, 2014 Tuesday 11: Favorite Fandoms

It’s my 42nd birthday today, so I thought I’d take what that number portends and talk a little about my favorite things I’m a fan of. I don’t have the energy (or memory!) I once did to memorize all kinds of facts and figures, so my participation these days is more passive. At the same […]

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May 5, 2014 Marvel Monday: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Yes, I am taking whatever “M” words I want and turning Mondays into that particular thing. I DO WHAT I WANT. I went with some friends to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 over the weekend and I liked it well enough. There’s a thing they do near the end that’s pretty  much straight from the […]

April 25, 2014 Stories Are Important

One of the games I’m playing these days is Assassin’s Creed Liberation. It’s set in the latter half of 1700 in New Orleans and Mexico, and the main character is Aveline de Grandpré. She is of French and African heritage, born to a French father and an African slave mother. Aveline was raised in a wealthy environment and was later […]

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April 22, 2014 Tuesday 10: Jack Nicholson Movies

In honor of  his 77th birthday today, here’s a list of my favorite Jack Nicholson movies. I’ll go ahead and warn you up front that I haven’t seen some of his most famous movies (Chinatown, Easy Rider), so there’ll be lots for you to disagree with today. 10. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) – There’s no doubt […]