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Corey Haim is one of the best child actors of all time all on the strength of one movie: Lucas.
If you haven’t seen it, Netflix it. Not for the plot or for the direction or for the performances of the other actors (the barely pubescent Charlie Sheen, Wynona Ryder and Jeremy Piven are in it), but for the [...]

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1. The Exorcist  - This movie had me at the soundtrack. I saw it when I was 15 years old and it was still in it’s first run. I will never forget sitting between my friends, Steve Maddox and Gerry Rosen, both of whom had already seen the movie and were there just to watch me go pale.
Of course, being a boy-man [...]

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This weekend my wife and I saw Michael Moore’s latest mockumentary, Capitalism: A Love Story.
She loved it and dutifully applauded at the end when Moore declares capitalism evil.
I, on the other hand, found it to be what all of Mr. Moore’s films are: One-sided propaganda pieces selectively constructed to validate his own preformed points of view.
As with all previous diatribes [...]

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My wife and I saw two movies this week: The Ugly Truth and The Hurt Locker.
One’s a bomb and the other’s about bombs.
Let’s start with the clunker.
The Ugly Truth
The Ugly Truth aspires to be one of those cute, romantic love stories where a crude, misogynist, jaded hunk is won over by a smart, sexy, neurotic babe.
Gerard Butler plays the [...]

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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
- Voltaire -
There is far too much certainty in the world.

People of faith are as certain of their own salvation as they are of everyone else’s damnation and atheists are certain that anyone of faith is a moronic dupe incapable of reason.
Right-wing ideologues  are certain [...]

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