Saw 300 this weekend, the new movie based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller. It’s about a group of 300 Spartans who stood against a massive army at the ancient Battle of Thermopylae. It was your usual swords-and-sandal movie. A noble, but brash king, Leonidas, leads his men into battle with everyone knowing that they’re going to die. Yet, somehow, they →

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Saw Ghost Rider with Nic Cage this weekend. I was interested in seeing it because it’s based on a comic book character, Johnny Blaze, who makes a deal with the devil and becomes Satan’s bounty hunter. I’ve never read that comic — never even heard of it until the movie came out, actually. But I like comics, and it looked like cheesy →

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First of all, let me say that I am a HUGE James Bond fan. I have all the books. And I mean ALL the books, even the ones written by someone other than Ian Fleming. I have all the movies. I even have some of the soundtracks. And I can bore scores of people with Bond-related trivia. This weekend, I →

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Saw Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan this weekend. The movie is about Borat, a television reporter from Kazakhstan who comes to America to film a documentary. Along the way, he offends, insults or attacks just about everyone he meets, from feminists to a minister to Pamela Anderson. The significant other liked it. I did not. I knew →

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