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Okay, Yes, You Got Me, Lego Movie

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

This looks like it will be genuinely funny and a lot of fun. I’m in. That said, in other Lego news, the Lego board games are ending. I got a couple of them for the parts and they weren’t great … Continue reading →

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Dave Finally Watches: The Social Network

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

Season four of Arrested Development plays with George Michael developing The Next Big Internet Thing, a joke which mostly relies on actor Michael Cera’s (no longer particularly close) resemblance to Jesse Eisenberg. After the George Michael episode, in which we … Continue reading →

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Dave Finally Watches: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

If you’ve been waiting on a copy of Beasts of the Southern Wild from Netflix, I’m sorry. We held on to one for, like, months, because neither of us could bring ourselves to have our hearts ripped out, which is … Continue reading →

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Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

When I was a kid, the Sunday Morning Movie was must-see TV. It was your delivery system for old horror and adventure movies. It’s where I first got scared of The Crawling Eye, Fiend Without a Face, Black Sabbath, and … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter and the Magical Movie Marathon Part 2

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

I would treat the last four movies individually, as I did in Part 1, but they all kind of blur together from here out. That’s not a criticism, just from this point there’s more of a single story being told … Continue reading →

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It Happened on Brick Avenue

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

An adorable stop motion Lego film by dustincropsboy

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Harry Potter and the Magical Movie Marathon

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

A few years ago a major pop culture event completely passed by us, more or less. The Harry Potter books and movies, which took the world by storm, landed with a thud in this house. We both started reading the … Continue reading →

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

Unlike a lot of my geek colleagues, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien do not loom large in my mind. I didn’t read The Lord of the Rings until some time in my mid-20s, and then just the one time. I … Continue reading →

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