From Paris With Love is a confused action/spy flick that feels like its being made up on the fly. Poorly written but energetically staged by action maestro Pierre Morel, From Paris With Love is worth a rental, if not quite a purchase.

John Travolta (hammy, with a shaved head) plays a nasty American agent named Charlie Wax who comes to Paris to team with an assistant to the ambassador played by a bland Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Meyers can be an effective (if one note) actor when he’s given the chance to use his full model looks to pout and sneer (as …

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Not to be confused with James Cameron’s Avatar, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a cartoon from Nickelodeon that came out in 2005.  The story is about the Fire Nation waging war with the three other nations: Water, Earth and Air.  With the world in turmoil, only a 12 year old Avatar monk named Aang has a chance of defeating the Fire nation and bring back peace to the land.  The story sounds generic, even similar to Episode 1 but this is one of the best cartoon I’ve seen. The show blends drama, comedy and action smoothly with entertaining stories.  I always …

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My favorite Batman story of all time, Year One, will be coming soon to video as an animated movie.  Written by Frank Miller, the story shows the struggle of Bruce Wayne as he becomes Batman for the first time.  The story also has a subplot of Jim Gordon as he tries to fit in with the Gotham City Police department.  According to comics continuum, the movie will be directed by Sam Liu.  Liu directed animated straight to video flicks before including Justice League Crisis on Two Earths, Superman/Batman Public Enemies and Hulk Vs.

I’m excited …

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Remember in grade school when you’d have arguments with your friends about your favorite warrior?

Well, Spike took that idea and turned it into a tv show.  The show pits two warriors and based on scientific weapon testings , we see the victor.  I love this show but there’s some flawed logic to the show’s  scientific tests. The warriors strategy and tactics aren’t put into play and this is my biggest gripe.  For example, the Spartans were kickass because they worked as one cohesive unit but in the show,  the spartan is fighting by himself.  This gives his opponent, a ninja, …

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Dear John is the latest movie from best-selling author Nicholas Sparks. The best adaptation of his sappy novels turned films is definitely The Notebook. The strong acting and atmosphere helped the movie glide past its rough patches and cheesy writing. Director Lasse Hallstrom has fashioned an entertaining and visually pleasing version of the book Dear John. Channing Tatum (looks great, limited acting wise) and Amanda Seyfried (almost as pretty as Tatum, often whiny in the movie) are well-matched as young lovers, but when they are apart (a necessary function of the story), the movie loses focus. Dear John benefits greatly from …

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As a fan of the Suicide Girls (SG), this DVD was satisfying. The storyline is; well, there is no storyline. They had themes, instead. Short segments such as how to do Yoga in the nudes; or recreating an all-girl Fight Club; or even, how to cure a hangover. My favorite, though, was how to win a pillow-fight; you can probably imagine what happens there! Of course, this DVD isn’t meant to be taken seriously, AT ALL. If you truly want to learn Yoga, go to Youtube!

If you don’t already know, the SGs are a group of …

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Legion is about a struggle for the fate of no less than the end of the world, but mostly it’s a boring slog from beginning to end. There’s a few quick, unsettling scenes (stuff you’ve already seen in the promising promos and trailers for the flick), but mostly there’s just poorly written babble about God hating humans, a mythical baby, and the end of the world. It’s almost bad enough to make you flee to a Sunday morning church service. Poorly acted and lit with what had to be flashlights, the low-budget Legion doesn’t possess many thrills or chills and will …

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Our long national nightmare is over! Daria has been released on DVD. The instantly addictive, smart, and funny series was broadcast on MTV back in 1997 and ran for five glorious seasons. It also spawned two terrific longer movies, “Is It Fall Yet” and “Is It College Yet”. The latter was used to close out the series and is basically the final episode. The character of Daria Morganendorffer was introduced during Beavis and Butthead as a smart, sardonic foil to America’s favorite metalhead morons. Daria quickly established itself as a much better show than Beavis and Butthead and this DVD set …

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is easily one of the most interesting and engaging young actors in Hollywood. Doing mostly independent movies (while occasionally throwing in blockbusters like GI Joe and Chris Nolan’s eagerly anticipated summer movie Inception), Levitt has established himself as an actor worth watching. Uncertainty is certainly no classic, but it’s an entertaining piece of fate vs reality cinema that will appeal to fans of Run Lola Run and is a fun exercise in choice vs consequences.

The flip of a coin takes two young lovers in opposite directions for a wild ride. In one direction is a visit to Brooklyn …

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Haunted was an extremely short-lived series that debuted in 2002 on the struggling UPN Network. Dark, violent, and humorless, the series aired after Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and just wasn’t the right fit at the time, and didn’t have the good fortune to be on the right network. Haunted would have been much more successful on FOX, where X-Files and Millennium aired and were hits for the network. Haunted most resembles the Chris Carter series Millennium in tone and style. Mark Snow’s creepy score and the overall weirdo atmosphere add much to this unique series. Star Matthew Fox is effective as …

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