Essential Reading Archive

  • Good-Bye, Sarah Jane; R.I.P., Elisabeth Sladen

    I just read the most heartbreaking celebrity news. Elisabeth Sladen, radiant at age 63, has died of cancer. I haven’t been hit this hard by a celebrity death in quite some time. She was beautiful, confident, and had that kind of timeless grace that I...

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  • Blog on Blog Action: justJENN recipes

    If you haven’t checked out this blog, do it immediately! Whether you bake, cook, or just love geeky stuff, you’ll find things there to make you drool. I think the first time I came across it was when one Twitter friend or another retweeted something...

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  • [Preview] A Dance With Dragons

    Hold me.  I feel a little faint. This is like the Duke Nukem Forever of fantasy novels and much like playing that game at PAX last year, some part of me will not believe this news until I have the novel in my hands.  It...

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  • Why The King’s Speech Deserved Best Picture

    For those of you who are not aware, I’m relatively young. So when I tell you the first Academy Awards ceremony I can remember having an opinion on involved Titanic, I expect you to dismiss my opinion as lacking perspective. I did not want Titanic...

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  • Looking Forward: March Movies (2011)

    March has a lot more going for it than February in terms of movies coming out in the theaters. The month seems to be front loaded, so you’ll have some time to see the ones you want before we get into April (which looks a...

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  • [Archive Review] Inception (2010) {Spoilers}

    If David Lynch movies open Pandora’s Box of the subconscious, then Inception is a maze of the subconscious that the viewer navigates easily due to the tasty treat at the end.

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  • [Review] The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

    Philip K. Dick stories have a hit and miss track record with being adapted into films, with some of them being a lot more successful than the others.  Still, when they’re done well, they’re unforgettable as is the case with Blade Runner, no matter which...

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  • Looking Forward: February Movies (2011)

    Typically, there isn’t a lot of action in February for movies. The Oscar polls close in late January and the awards themselves happen in late February, so there usually aren’t a lot of bigger pictures released in the first months of the year. This means...

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  • Exploring Product Placement: “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”

    Premiering at The Sundance Film Festival this week is a intriguing documentary by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) that explores product placement in film. The fulcrum of the concept is that the film is 100% financed by product placement. In fact, the full title of...

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  • [Music] The Pop Bunker Top Albums of 2010

    Welcome to the PopBunker.net 2010 Albums of the Year post! This year’s countdown is broken into three sections: The first, just below, are honorable mentions or albums that deserve some consideration but have not been given proper listening time; the second section is albums 30...

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