Once again the QDR and CCW are merged into one post, and once again CCW looks at a classic Cary Grant comedy. This time, it's "Bringing Up Baby," a hilarious romantic comedy co-starring Katharine Hepburn. Click to read the review.
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Think you can't learn economics? Think again! Peter Schiff's book "How An Economy Grows and Why It Crashes" breaks down economics to a level anyone can understand and reveals the common sense approach that is Austrian economics. Read the review in the 17th QDR!
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At its release in 1933, King Kong was quite a spectacle and a true blockbuster. And while it’s been almost 80 years since this film released, it is still quite a spectacle. Prior to watching this for the first time, I had previously seen the 1976 remake starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange and thought it okay. I had also seen, and greatly enjoyed, the 2005 remake starring Naomi Watts and Adrian Brody. So I was more than familiar with the story of King Kong, but I had never seen the original…
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This is the final volume, so far, of the French comics to be released in English (all three volumes were just released in English back in October). A fourth volume came out in November in French titled “Hawk.” After finishing this volume, I really hope it doesn’t take another two volumes to come out before the series is printed in English again as I am into this story now. This one picks up where the second volume left off. This time around, another Assassin named Jonathan Hawk is in an Animus…
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Citizen Kane is widely considered by many to be the greatest film ever made, and it’s certainly noteworthy for a number of reasons. It was the motion picture debut of Orson Welles, already a noted theater performer. Welles starred in, directed, produced, and co-wrote the movie, and as director he brought a number of innovative techniques to the film. The camera angles he used, the way he staged scenes, and the lighting, amongst other things, were all innovative. More importantly it all worked…
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The Big Lebowski is a difficult film for me to review. I have probably spent more time watching this movie than any other movie in existence, but yet, I cannot say that it truly ranks with the all time classics of cinema and maintain my editorial credibility here. From a plot point of view, it’s simply a tangled mess that collapses in on itself many times over. It’s based, loosely, on the classic novel and film, ‘The Big Sleep’ by Raymond Chandler, but instead of having the protagonists be ace…
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If you enjoy dark and often obscene comedies, then Death to Smoochy is a must-own movie for you. Robin Williams is at his comedic best as former kid show host, Rainbow Randolph. Rainbow was ousted by Kid Net, after accepting bribes for the show. His replacement is the “squeaky clean”, Sheldon ‘Smoochy’ Mopes (Edward Norton), a fuchsia Rhino who’s catchphrase is “You can’t change the world, but you can make a dent.” The popularity of Smoochy’s Magic Jungle sky rockets to a national phenomenon…
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Today we will be looking into the latest offering from Bethesda and Arkane Studios, Dishonored. Dishonored is a first person, action-adventure game that can be played in a stealth fashion, a straight forward attacking style, or a combination there of. For the purposes of my play through for the review, I employed the combo of the stealth and attacking style. I wanted to try the full stealth play through, but apparently I'm not patient enough for that, so that is the combination is what I went…
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Arkane Studios consists of veterans from the Deus Ex series, Half life series, Thief games and has been 3 years in the making and I'm happy to report the wait was well worth it. It would have been huge shock and arguably one of the biggest letdowns in gaming in years had it not been given the pedigree of the talent that created this game. I’m a huge fan of these kinds of games and I'm thrilled to see them returning. Last year we had the stellar Deus Ex Human Revolution which I reviewed highly…
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At first glance, you may think Brotherhood is nothing more than an expansion pack to Assassin's Creed II, and actually that doesn't feel far off. The game does carry that vibe. Brotherhood picks up exactly where Assassin's Creed II left off, for both Desmond and Ezio, making this a direct sequel where you really need to play the second game before firing this one up. Everything is pretty much the same as Assassin's Creed II here. You're still reliving the memories of Ezio Auditore, and there's…
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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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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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Uncharted 3 was my most anticipated game of the year. It’s been a week since its release, and I have finished the single player campaign twice (Normal and Crushing), and I can safely say that it lived up to my anticipation and expectations. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves set the bar extremely high, and I believe Naughty Dog are right when they say the kind of jump between Uncharted to Uncharted 2 can only happen once a generation. Where Among Thieves vastly improved in every way over the first game…
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(Review originally written April 2006, contains spoilers) All throughout the fifties, sixties, and seventies cinema's began filling up with a new kind of movie character. This character was affectionately dubbed 'the anti hero'. While hero's of the past were all kind considerate and upstanding citizens who all did their best to uphold the laws of the land and the opinions of movie goers, this new breed of hero could honestly not care less about what you or anyone else thought of him. Characters…
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(Review originally written in April 2006, contains some spoilers) Eddy Felson is a man filled to capacity with talent, however what he sorely lacks when first we meet his character in the 1961 classic is 'character'. He first walks into 'Ames' pool hall with a cocky grin hoping only to defeat the great pool hustler Minisota Fats (Played wonderfully here by Jackie Gleason). And he does indeed do that, they engage in a grueling series of marathon pool that at one point see's Felson up on Fats by…
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In the closing scene of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed a rat crawls across a window ledge. This is a rather overt but appropriate piece of symbolism. Since, for the most part, The Departed is a movie about rats. No, not the furry little rodents your grandma used to set traps out for, the other kind of rat, that being the Henry Hill and Donnie Brasco variety of vermin that we’ve all become so familiar with in the past few decades due to movies such as this one. The movie begins with the tale of…
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Now here is a movie deserving of its title, as True Grit, is truly, as tough and gritty as they come. I must confess that I do ever so love a good western. Like many, I grew up watching countless westerns with my dad and my grandfather. There's just something very special and timeless about that period of history just after the Civil War up until start of the 20th century, at least as far as movies are concerned. And when it comes to westerns, few of them were as watched and re-watched by me and…
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Undead Nightmare really is something special. Priced at $10, or 800 Microsoft Points, on PSN and Xbox LIVE, it's the kind of DLC that even the most anti-DLC person can get behind. It features additional multiplayer modes, but even more importantly a stand-alone single player campaign that will last you roughly six to eight hours depending on your play style. It's so well done and so well polished, that Rockstar released it as a retail game packed with the other DLC content for Red Dead…
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What can I say about Mass Effect? For those that haven’t played it before, it is one of the best gaming experiences you can have. For those that have played it, it’s still one of the best gaming experiences you can have. Our journey begins as Commander Shephard, or your own custom made character if you choose to go that route, and the crew of the Normandy being sent to Eden Prime to assist in securing and recovering an artifact of an ancient, extinct alien race, the Protheans. As you can…
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Reviewer's Note: I am reviewing the Playstation 3 version of the game, which I got after the attack on the Playstation Network. As such, I have been unable to link the game to my Steam account or connect to PSN to play the online co-op. Therefore, this review does not factor any of the Steam features or the online play. This review is purely based on the single player campaign. Once PSN service is restored and I spend enough time testing the online features, I may revise and update the review…
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