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The site Masters in IT has posted its list of the top fifty geeky movies of all time. While I would quibble with their selection, I have decided to print their list. I have bolded the ones that I have seen.

50. Akira
49. Stargate
48. Spaceballs
47. Gattaca
46. Office Space
45. Fight Club
44. Run Lola Run
43. Memento
42. 300
41. Lucas
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I really enjoyed the film Cowboys and Aliens.  Some time ago, I had put together a little RPG setting called "The Eerie Exploits of Ranger Company X," which was a sort of a X-Files-meets-Walker, Texas Ranger-meets-The Wild, Wild West (TV series) mashup.  So you can probably imagine that I was stoked to see C&A.  Now, don't get me wrong: it wasn't ( Read more... )

I went into this with extremely low expectations. I wasn't terribly disappointed. However, there were a few bright spots in this film that actually surprised me.

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Do not pass out. I repeat, do NOT pass out. I realize that this is the first non-'bot-generated post in a while, but it couldn't be helped. I moved to a new city, state, and job. It has taken me this long to feel settled enough to even be comfortable thinking about writing again ( Read more... )

Over the weekend my Princess Bride and and a couple of friends and I saw The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon King. In a very good summer of movie releases, this is a worthy entry.

Which is not to say that it is the best of the bunch, just a good one, and in my mind, a worthy entry in the rebooted Universal Studios' Mummy franchise ( Read more... )

Today, I began a new OTR series I acquired from the Internet Archive. Moon Over Africa, produced between 1935 and 1938, is a fairly straightforward adventure tale. It features a scientist-explorer, his beautiful daughter and her fiance. The first two episodes also utilize the device of a preserved human head that has the unique ability to talk ( Read more... )

Before I dive in to the reviews, just a further update on the recovery. I saw the surgeon yesterday, who removed the few bandages I had in place, looked around and pronounced himself satisfied with the progress. There is still some slight swelling in place, the bruising is almost all gone, and although there are a few 'pulling' sensations ( Read more... )

I just saw, to my great joy, that the city of Lufkin has just purchased a downtown movie theater for the purpose of renovating it and restoring it to its original (or nearly so) glory ( Read more... )

Today, I just completed another mini-film festival while my wife has been away on a women's ministry retreat weekend.

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