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Goonies Never Say Die! Goonies 2 On the Horizon!

Finally, I get to rejoin my childhood heroes in an adventure for the ages!  And with many of the original actors returning for the sequel (Sean Astin and Corey Feldman especially), Goonies 2 will actually feel like a sequel.

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Boondock Saints 2? For reals this time?

Midway through watching the latest Hannah Montana episode, I decided to end the insanity and check out what was being dugg. This next headline of course captured my attention and made the surrounding world fade away instantly (crub! I think there was a pet or two I was supposed to feed) ‘Boondock Saints 2? Plot details + Production Diary!' Wow, this looked vaguely like something I had read a few years ago that never seemed to pan out. Well with Troy Duffy having to deal with some legal issues that just wrapped up, I guess everything is getting the green light... maybe... Damn I hate rumors.

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The Dark Knight Review without Spoilers

Let me start off by saying I'm a huge cynic when it comes to movies that are hyped up. Once people begin to rave about a film, I automatically search for the flaws. It's my nature that stems from being let down so many times from a long awaited film that flopped and flipped before my eyes and caused me to count each second of my life that was wasted. Perhaps it was appropriate that the prelude to the blockbuster season was fittingly a trip to NYC to attend the 2008 NYC Comic-Con and sit before those who created the geek genus: Dick Ayers, Nick Cardy, Irwin Hasen, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Stan Lee, Jerry Robinson, John Romita, Sr, Joe Simon, Joe Sinnott and Mort Walker to name a few (you can view my footage here ).

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Why so serious? Because it’s opening weekend!

I am doing it. I am crossing the line into mainstream and going to see The Dark Knight on opening weekend. I purchased my tickets on Fandango for the 9:30 a.m. showing tomorrow morning to keep some of my pride in tact and I'm still in shock that the film is already out! Two years I've waited anxiously for this day to come, ever since I saw the picture of Heath putting on the make-up. He looked gritty, psychotic, awesome! By no means am I a film nerd, so my review of the film will more than likely be a little dumbed down and lacking intense details. It'll be raw, excited and perhaps slightly ADHD.

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Wristcutters: A Love Story

Disclaimer: In this hypersensitive world, do not read further if suicide is a touchy subject, if you have good taste in films or if you value your time. “Trapped in an alternate world populated by suicide victims, a band of souls tries to find an escape route in Goran Dukic’s quirky fantasy. Although he took his [...]

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What to watch (or not): Ghic’s got you covered.

Synopsis (Yahoo) PG-13 Juno is a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker. With the help of her hot best friend Leah, Juno finds her unborn child a “perfect” set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa, longing to adopt. Luckily, Juno has the total support of her parents as [...]

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What to watch (or not): Ghic’s got you covered.

Rather than spending my evenings playing with the latest gadget, reading a great novel or doing something productive online or off, my mind has been so exhausted lately that my brain has preferred to escape through film. Be it theatrical release or the DVD- here’s my latest in what to watch and what to avoid. On [...]

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Ghic Chic Review: 30 Days of Night

It’s the holiday weekend, what other kind of film are you going to check out… if you’re me? I saw “I am Legend”, but being as that didn’t annoy me, I’ll save that review for a little bit later. In the meantime I bring you 30 Days of Night. Or as I like to call it, [...]

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Ghic Chic Review: Halloween in time for Christmas

A film by John Carpenter- Oh wait, adapted by Rob Zombie. I like Rob Zombie- as a musical artist. When it comes to film, he lost me with House of  1,000 Corpses. I had bated my breath for years as I had waited for a distributor to carry the film and bring it to a theater [...]

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Train_Man | Densha Otoko

A Love Story for the Geek in All of Us Wow. I just finished watching this film and I’m literally in tears. If ever there was a film that I could relate to- this is it. Synopsis “When a computer engineer otaku (the Japanese term for “geek”) who has never had a girlfriend in his life saves [...]

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Teen Titans GO!

Go to the big screen that is… Usually I’m hesitant when a comic jumps from the pages and into a box office due to being bitten one too many times, however I was stoked when it was announced at Comic-Con earlier this summer that Teen Titans will be making an appearance at a theater near you. After [...]

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The Princess Bride 20 years later

ABC is running a neat gallery of photos depicting the major players of the Princess bride then and now. I still enjoy this movie and have had the book sitting on my shelf for 20 years or so now but have not gotten around to reading it yet. I hear it’s wonderful though. Click the icon, [...]

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Robotech Remastered - a journey back to the future.

When I was in 5th grade, I fell in love with a cartoon for the first time in my life. Sure I liked the Looney Toons and the general Saturday morning fare, but now I had found a show that, while a cartoon, was more than just falling off cliffs and badly drawn superheros. I [...]

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