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Patriots of Treason
Book Reviews

Review: Patriots Of Treason

William McPherson

Author: David Thomas Roberts This was a review copy, provided at no cost to the reviewer. It should be duly noted right out at the forefront of this review that this is definitely a very in your face kind of book as it relates to its political dealings. Unashamedly, it’s a tin foil hat wearing, ‘right wingers’ kind of book mixing elements of current events and the author’s own imaginings. And it does have a political agenda. Everything from the content, the timing of the release, and the…

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Dead Man Wins Election
Book Reviews

Dead Man Wins Election Review

Gary Smith

With Election Day just a few hours away, it's the perfect time to sit down and read a book that does a great job of showing just how useless politicians are and how corrupt many of these people are. This book is packed with tales of stupid public servants, corrupt elections, the idiocy of voters, and any other "wacky and unbelievable" thing you can think of. If, for whatever reason, you haven't already lost all faith in government and the idea of elections, then this book will probably help push…

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Tokleins World
Book Reviews

Tolkien’s World – A Guide to the Peoples and Places of Middle-earth Review

Gary Smith

Tolkien's World is the "unofficial and unauthorized guide to Tolkien's Middle-earth." To start off with, this is a beautiful hardcover book. It's big too, and I don't mean in terms of page count. It's 11.8x10.4x0.5 inches. It isn't just pictures and paintings though, it's really more of a brief encyclopedia of all things "Middle-earth" related. It's broken up into three sections: "The Free Peoples," "The Enemy," and "Legends and Lore of Middle-earth." Gareth Hanrahan does a good job of breaking…

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2016 Obama's America
Entertainment

2016 – Obama’s America Review

Gary Smith

2016: Obama’s America enjoyed a ton of success at the box office this Summer, raking in over $30 million and becoming the second highest-grossing political documentary of all time and the fifth highest-grossing documentary of all time. The documentary is based on the book The Roots of Obama’s Rage by conservative author Dinesh D’Souza, who also co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in this film. Folks who haven’t seen the film should know exactly what they’re getting into with this: it’s an…

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Beatles Stories
Entertainment

Beatles Stories: A Fab Four Fan’s Ultimate Road Trip Review

Gary Smith

Synopsis: Songwriter Seth Swirsky grew up idolizing the Beatles. He set out, video camera in hand, to talk to people who had crossed paths with his musical heroes. From Sir Ben Kingsley to Sir George Martin, and Beach Boy Brian Wilson to astronomer Brian Skiff, Swirsky filmed hundreds of personal recollections from people who knew them well to those who just had an unforgettable encounter. Longtime Beatles friend and personal assistant Tony Bramwell calls Beatles Stores, “A Magical Mystery Tour…

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Legends of Pro Wrestling
Book Reviews

Legends of Pro Wrestling Review

Gary Smith

The word "encyclopedia" isn't mentioned anywhere in the title, but don't let that fool you. Legends of Pro Wrestling is a wrestling encyclopedia, and a darn good one at that. There hasn't been many attempts at a wrestling encyclopedia, and outside of the WWE produced one none have been a "must have" for anyone remotely interested in pro wrestling history. Legends of Pro Wrestling however is a must have book for hardcore wrestling fans that want to learn about the many wrestlers that have been…

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The Expendables 2
Entertainment

The Expendables 2 Review

William McPherson1 Comment

About this time a year ago I penned my review of the original Expendables movie. I am tempted to simply copy and paste it here while just adding a 'two' to the end of the title and maybe make some other slight changes and be done with it, but on second thought this movie does deserve a slightly more thorough job than the likes of that. It's not that the story, thin and paperlike as ever here is any better than that of the original movie, in fact you could argue the plot here is even simpler than…

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Wedding Crashers
Entertainment

Wedding Crashers Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Wedding Crashers is the story of John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), who are two divorce mediators who go to weddings during wedding season (Spring) to pick up chicks and get some free food/alcoholic beverages. The film starts with the duo being shown in action at various weddings, weaving all sorts of lies to fit whatever persona's they use at each individual wedding. As the wedding season comes to a close, Jeremy talks John into crashing one last wedding, a wedding that Jeremy refers…

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Saving Private Ryan Review
Entertainment

Saving Private Ryan Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Saving Private Ryan is the kind of film you can watch dozens of times and still find something new. Here is a full review of Spielberg's masterpiece ahead of Memorial Day.

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Predator Nation
Book Reviews

Predator Nation Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

You may know Charles Ferguson as the director and writer of the 2010 Academy Award winning documentary Inside Job, which examined the financial crisis from 2007-2010.  If you watched that documentary and liked it and agreed with it, then this book is for you. Predator Nation is essentially a book follow-up/extension to Inside Job. It's also a book the left will love and eat up as gospel, so if you're a liberal then you should buy this book as you'll definitely enjoy it. There are a few ways I…

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Shooter
Entertainment

Shooter Review

Gary Smith

A former marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) was living more of a solitary mountain life until he is visited by Colonel Isaac Johnson(Glover) who had received a threat on the President’s life. Reluctantly pressed back into service for his country, Swagger must figure out the assassin’s plan for attack and in which city it will occur. Trouble for Swagger is, he’s the fall guy for a coup to kill a visiting dignitary and he must now uncover who is behind the elaborate plot. Chaos and action…

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K-Pax
Entertainment

K-PAX Review

Gary Smith

Kevin Spacey shows why he is the man in this adaptation of the 1995 book by Charles Brewer. Spacey stars in this drama as Prot, a mental institution patient who claims to be a visitor from the planet K-Pax. Prot falls under the care of Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges), who immediately dismisses “Prot” as delusional. Throughout the course of the movie, several “miracles” happen around the mental hospital, as Prot’s presence seems to calm everyone. Dr. Powell becomes intrigued by his latest patient…

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Entertainment

Black Hawk Down Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Black Hawk Down might be the most realistic war film ever made. Ridley Scott's account of the Battle of Mogadishu puts you in the streets and never lets you breathe. Full review.

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Eastern Promises
Entertainment

Eastern Promises Review

Gary Smith

After a mysterious girl dies giving birth in a London hospital, Anna Khitrova (Watts) discovers the girl’s diary and tries to use it to find the newborn baby’s relatives. Naturally, it is written in Russian so Anna cannot understand it, but her uncle can, and despite his warnings to stay away, she goes off to seek answers at the Trans-Siberian restaurant that is the front of a violet crime family headed by a man named Semyon (Mueller-Stahl). Semyon’s driver Nikolai (Mortensen) takes a liking to…

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King Arthur
Entertainment

King Arthur Review

Gary Smith

Bob Longino of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution referred to this film as “…a really, really cheap knockoff of Gladiator.” I’m not usually one to agree with professional critics, but this is one of the exceptions to that rule, as this movie did have me thinking, “Damn, this is almost like Gladiator, only not as good.” The story centers around Arthur, who spends a whole five minutes (if that) in this movie as King Arthur, and his Knights of the Round Table, stationed in the British Isles. Arthur…

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Astral City A Spiritual Journey
Entertainment

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey Review

Gary Smith

  Astral City: A Spiritual Journey is a Brazilian film from director Wagner de Assis that is based on the book Nosso Lar (Our Home) by Brazilian medium Chico Xavier as dictated through psychography by the spirit of Dr. André Luiz. Since this is a Brazilian film, the language spoken is Portuguese meaning this is a film you will have to read the subtitles for, which will unfortunately automatically disqualify it for many viewers. The film, and book, tells the supposedly true story of Dr…

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Horrible Bosses
Entertainment

Horrible Bosses Review

William McPherson1 Comment

Let's just get the most important bit out of the way first shall we? Horrible Bosses is a very funny movie. That's all you really needed to know wasn't it? Well, there you have it. If you’re not into the whole analysis thing, feel free to take that free cookie and head on over to the forums to ogle pictures in the Babe Zone. Horrible Bosses is also a very raunchy movie, well deserving of its R-rating, so please, leave the kiddies at home for this one, or send them to another room. In terms of…

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Faster
Entertainment

Faster Review

William McPherson

(Warning, contains slight spoilers) Ah, now this is more like it. For a while there I thought we’d lost you Dwayne. Don’t get me wrong, you were as likeable as ever in all those affable little kids movies like ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ and ‘The Tooth Fairy’, but it was beyond fine time that you returned to your bread and butter, that being a good nitty gritty hard boiled action flick. This last year we were blessed with two such outings from the former WWE superstar, both with similar titles…

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Octopussy
Entertainment

Octopussy Review

William McPherson1 Comment

Hello everyone and welcome to the thirteenth installment in my series of reviews chronicling the James Bond film series. This time out the movie we will be taking a look at is none other than 1983’s suggestively titled ‘Octopussy’. This movie marked the sixth appearance in the James Bond role for Roger Moore, officially tying him at that point with Sean Connery for most outings in the role. Connery would make a brief but unofficial return to the role later that same year to make it seven movies…

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Airheads
Entertainment

Airheads Review

William McPherson

Chazz and Rex are testing Chris Moore CHAZZ: Let me ask you a question. Which side did you take in the big Van Halen / David Lee Roth split? MOORE: Uh...what do you mean? (Chris Moore fidgets nervously.) MILO: What kind of question is that? CHAZZ: Which way did you go, man? Roth or Halen? MOORE: Van Halen? IAN: He's a cop. (Chazz tosses Chris Moore's wallet to the ground.) CHAZZ: Later, bacon. REX: Oink oink! MOORE: Come on, come on! That's strictly a judgment call, those guys sold a lot of…

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