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• Board Game Review – Smash Up

  

  Smash Up is published by AEG and designed by Paul Peterson. It’s a shuffle-building game in which you choose two factions and try to win victory points by havin... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Best Man Down (2012)

  Justin Long and and Jess Weixler play Scott and Kristin, a newlywed couple whose plans for a honeymoon are shattered when the best man Lumpy (Tyler Labine) dies. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – The Hidden Fortress (1958)

  The Hidden Fortress by legendary director Akira Kurosawa is probably best known as one of the films that inspired George Lucas when writing Star Wars. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – The Negotiator (1998)

  After being framed, a trained negotiator, recently revered as a hero, takes hostages in an attempt to figure out who framed him, and why. Samuel L. Jackson play... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Book Review – Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon Callow

  

  This book is a follow-up to The Road to Xanadu, which chronicled the life of Orson Welles from his birth up to the release of Citizen Kane. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – The Switch (2010)

  In The Switch Wally (Jason Bateman) is struggling to come to terms with his feelings when his best friend Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) decides to have a baby. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Winning (1969)

  If I had been writing this a few years ago there would be an obvious Charlie Sheen joke here. Winning has Paul Newman playing a racing car driver, Frank Capua,... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Ali (2001)

  Will Smith plays the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in this biopic from Michael Mann. I’m not a boxing fan, but I do love boxing movies, and I tend to enjoy... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Adaptation (2002)

  Adaptation is a film about a screenwriter writing about himself writing the film adaptation to a book, while also writing about the writer who originally wrote... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Book Review – The Dark Half by Stephen King

  

  As you can see in the picture the title is embossed, but is written in black. I angled the photo so it was easy to see but when I first got the book and looked... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

  300: Rise of an Empire is more of a side-quel to 300 than a sequel as it takes place at the same time. I think it would be interesting to see the two edited... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Need for Speed (2014)

  Okay, so I’m not a petrolhead and I’ve only played one of the Need for Speed games, so I’m not going to be talking about all the different cars here or whether... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Book Review – The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

  

  Before I read this book I had never read anything by Stephen King, although I have of course seen a lot of movies that have been based on his books. My godfathe... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Book Review – The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin, George Perez and Ron Lim

  

  I imagine many people will have been seeking out this graphic novel after seeing the post-credits scene in Avengers. The Infinity Gauntlet collects six issues. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Board Game Resource – The Collectionary

  

  The Board Games Collectionary is a site that my attention was drawn to and it seems to be an informative resource for people interested in the board gaming... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Book Review – Superman: The Unauthorized Biography by Glen Weldon

  

  In this book Glen Weldon takes a look at Superman’s history and how he went from a comic book character to a cultural icon. Superman: The Unauthorized... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Heartbeats (2010)

  Heartbeats, also known as Les Amours Imaginaires, is a French film about two friends, straight woman Marie and gay man Francis, who fall in love with the same... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Piggy (2012)

  In this British film Joe, a mild-mannered average guy, is living a routine, boring life. One day his group of friends gets into an altercation with a group of... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Ill Manors (2012)

  Ill Manors is a film by Ben Drew, also known as Plan B, who is primarily a rapper. It shows the grim life of drug dealers and prostitutes that all live in or... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES

• Movie Review – Rising Sun (1993)

  There is a house in New Orleans…. In this incredibly convoluted film Wesley Snipes plays a cop, Webster Smith, who is partnered with an expert on Japanese... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES