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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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The new Potter film is as good to the story as it is to the eyes, adapting the core story elements of its novel into a form more suitable for a visual medium. The film feels like a perfect continuation from Order of the Phoenix, which is to be expected given the director, but also manages to come across as the logical maturation of Prisoner of Azkaban.

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Harry Potters 1 to 5

Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Cuarón does a great job with immersion, but he leaves out far too many integral plot details. Harry Potter fans like to whine about every tiny little cut that the film adaptations make, which has always gotten on my nerves: this is one huge exception. There’s too much story cut out of this movie, and I really can’t think of a reason why. The book of this one was a bit longer than Chamber, but the movie is a bit shorter. Adding these details back in could have made the film the same length at most, and probably still a bit shorter. Why the cuts?

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Top Ten Reasons Why Urban Dead is Awesome

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Urban Dead is an awesome low-tech browser game by Kevan Davis. The premise behind the game is that you’re in a quarantined city named Malton, either fighting for survival against zombies, or fighting for tasty brains. Urban Dead has proven itself to be pretty damn awesome over the past few months, and I feel like I wouldn’t be doing it justice if I didn’t make an attempt to advertise it. So here’s my top ten reasons why Urban Dead is the best browser game ever.

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Internet Explorer 8

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Microsoft definitely made a huge step forward with the release of IE7, so why should anything be different here? I hoped that, with Firefox’s market share steadily rising, they might feel the heat and really go the extra mile. Turns out I was wrong, but not by that much. IE8 follows in the proud Internet Explorer tradition of being confused.

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SimCity

Posted on 24. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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You remember SimCity, don’t you? Though I never played any of the sequels to SimCity, I can tell right away that this game isn’t one. SimCity on your iPhone or iPod is a pretty good deal. It’s not perfect by any means, since all the problems that were fixed are only replaced with more problems. Still, it’s a fun game and remains pretty faithful to the original concept.

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Connor Beaton’s (500) Days of Summer review

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Connor Beaton.

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Joseph Gordon-Levvit and Zooey Deschanel star as hopeless romantic Tom and the titular Summer respectively in what’s surely the most true and heart-warming romantic comedy ever released.

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Bran’s Zombieland review

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Zombie movies tend be rather empty, I admit, so it’s always nice to see one break away from that and offer some subtext a la the original George Romero films. This is not such a movie.

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Connor Beaton’s Zombieland review

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Connor Beaton.

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Shaun of the Dead has already proven to us that there is comedy in the zombie apocalypse, and Zombieland is perhaps an even better example of such. Opting for the fast “Infected” zombies, the film sees Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin take on the roles of four survivors of the human apocalypse.

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The Hangover

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Usually I need a dose of drama in a film to make me care about the comedy, but every once in a while I see a comedy film that really steps above the rest and manages to deliver some witty lines and situations without injecting any big dramatic elements. The Hangover is definitely a step above most pure comedies.

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