Archive for August 2009
Update: Milla Jovovich is a liar
Posted by: Marcy on: August 26, 2009
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Photo by ra64 on Flickr. Mallory and I were quite surprised with all the reaction we got from our “Milla Jovovich is a liar” post on the movie The Fourth Kind. So much so we decided to do an update.
Wait, “The Blind Side” is about FOOTBALL?
Posted by: Mallory on: August 24, 2009
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The Blind Side trailer makes the movie look like your typical rich-people-save-poor-kid-ala-The-OC story with Sandra Bullock as blonde haired Texas momma who takes in a poor black boy. When Marcy and I saw the trailer, we yawned. It looked more suited for Lifetime or an after-school special than the big screen in November and the [...]
The Quarterlife Crisis sucks, so why would we want to watch it?
Posted by: Mallory on: August 23, 2009
Post-Grad, starring Alexis Bledel, opened last weekend to poor reviews and tanked at the box office. In the film’s defense, the Quarterlife Crisis is a hard sell: Reality Bites and Garden State were cult hits, Kevin Williamson’s Wasteland was canceled after three episodes and the internet/NBC series Quarterlife barely made it off the internet. As a [...]
Build-A-Lot 4: Power Source adds energy to the series
Posted by: Mallory on: August 22, 2009
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Literally. Power sources are the newest feature in the fourth Build-A-Lot game and it’s a new challenge to get used to. You can’t build too many houses at once or else there’s a blackout – you need more power! The point-and-click, real estate-strategy concept of Build-A-Lot has stayed pretty much the same in every incarnation: You [...]
Milla Jovovich is a liar
Posted by: Marcy on: August 20, 2009
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UPDATE: Please see our latest post on this movie. Last night when Mallory and I went to see District 9 we were treated to about a half hour of trailers. One of them was for a movie called The Fourth Kind, which neither of us had ever heard of before. Let me first admit, it [...]
My Kingdom for the Princess makes reconstruction fun
Posted by: Mallory on: August 19, 2009
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What is this mess? My Kingdom for the Princess begins after a tornado leaves the kingdom in shambles and you’ve got to get Princess Helen back to her father. The point-and-click strategy game involves you and your little worker(s) cutting up fallen trees, fixing dilapidated roads and bridges, scaring away ghosts and renovating old buildings [...]
Movie Review: District 9
Posted by: Marcy on: August 19, 2009
You’ve probably seen all the posters and billboards promoting District 9- “For Humans Only,” “No Aliens Allowed,” “You are not welcome here”- it gives you an idea of what the movie will be about- conflict between humans and aliens. If you’re going to see the movie to see violence, special effects and human vs. alien [...]
The Time Traveler’s Wife to become a TV series
Posted by: Marcy on: August 18, 2009
Via slashfilm, The Time Traveler’s Wife is set to become a television show. It will be executive produced and written by Marta Kaufman aka co-creator of Friends and Veronica’s Closet. Is Marta Kaufman changing gears into drama or is The Time Traveler’s Wife about to be turned into a light hearted sitcom? Of course, Mallory [...]
Burger Shop 2 is more of the same, but with more food
Posted by: Mallory on: August 18, 2009
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I completely devoted myself to finishing the first Burger Shop, a time management game with all the right balance of upgrades, challenges, and risk for carpal tunnel. And now comes the inevitable sequel. In Burger Shop 2, all your success in the first game is mysteriously wiped away, except the BurgerTron 2000 machine, which you [...]
Don’t let the banjo scare you from the Avett Brothers
Posted by: Mallory on: August 18, 2009
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When the Avett Brothers get into it, you can’t help but dance, jump and sweat right along with them. The “Muppet-like intensity” (as accurately described by Vanity Fair) is what the band, from Concord, N.C., are known and loved for. The kinda-folky, kinda-country, kinda-everything group signed with Columbia, worked with renowned producer Rick Rubin and [...]
