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Animated Shorts of the 84th Academy Awards (and more)
My concentration on the Oscars each year is focused in one section primarily, the animated shorts. While I tend to only concern myself with the five nominated features I have in the past also made an effort to check out … Continue reading
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Tagged 84th academy awards, aardman, academy awards, animation, brown bag films, cartoons, cgi, claymation, disney, enrico casarosa, gobelins, grant orchard, jasper morello, logorama, moonbot studios, morris lessmore, national film board of canada, nick park, oktapodi, oscar awards, oscars, paths of hate, peter lord, pixar, richard condie, the lost thing, tim hittle, warner bros., will vinton, william joyce
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Law & Order’s Legacy Continues in Interactive Format
I was twelve years old when Law & Order began its long run on NBC. The show didn’t really hit its stride till the late great Jerry Orbach joined the cast in the second season along with S. Epatha Merkeson … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure game, adventure games, law & order, law & order legacies, telltale, telltale games, video games
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FAVORITE CONSOLE GAMES of 2011
Back to the Future-The Game: With Bob Gale along as a supervisor, Mike Stemmle and Andy Hartzell, a fourth Back to the Future movie was realized. One just needs to completely ignore most of Back to the Future: The cartoon … Continue reading
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Tagged cole, cole phelps, ps3, psn, swampy, team bondi, telltale, telltale games, the dragon, video games, yakuza
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Cloak & Dagger (a further review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)
My favorite part of Sherlock Holmes: A Book of Shadows involved a flip book. My second favorite scene involved nudity. My third favorite scene involved tons of explosions and some truly fine editing and cinematography. I’m not sure who the … Continue reading
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Tagged a game of shadows, cinematography, guy ritchie, movie review, sherlock holmes
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Favorite Movies of 2011
Rango: Gore Verbinkski’s animated western affair was a total delight to the eyes. Accompanied by an amazing soundtrack and perfectly well done jokes, I loved every moment of it. I was sorely disappointed when the blu-ray came out without the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, beginners, best of, books, captain america, Comics, drugs, favorites, hanna, hugo, marvel, overview, reviews, sex, sherlock holmes, TV and Movies, violence, year end
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Console Games scheduled for 2012 that catch my attention
Be aware that I like puzzle games, adventure games and third person action adventure games with platforming. I Am Alive: An Ubisoft productiion, the trailer shows an awesome combination of platforming, third person action, puzzles, first person shooting and more. … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, naughty dog, ps3, psn, puzzle, rockstar, shooter, suda51, ubisoft, video games
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Tributes to the Fallen 2011 Collected Post
As promised in Part 1 here is a post quickly linking you to each section so you can easily find them till well the next time I create an entry which should be soon. Part 1 (Comic Books and Artists) … Continue reading
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Tribute to those fallen in 2011 Part 5
This is the final of my tributes to the people who have passed this year, as with the rest it is broken down alphabetically and the age of the person and their cause is in parentheses after. In this final … Continue reading
Tribute to those fallen in 2011 Part 4
I repeat the initial paragraph here so you do not have to reference it after three prior posts. I’ve always felt it necessary to look back on what people who had an impact on my pop-culture history and in some … Continue reading
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Tagged celebrity, obit, people, technology, tribute, TV and Movies, video games, writing
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Tribute to those fallen in 2011 Part 3
Here in the third part of tributes to those departed I focus on the people who controlled the radios and soundtracks of our lives. I have linked to music videos or tracks posted on Youtube and other links where possible. … Continue reading
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Tagged Music, music video, obit, songwriting, tribute
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