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Star Wars by George Lucas v. The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini

***Warning: Spoilers for Eragon and Eldest ahead. You have been warned!*** Mr. Rochester recently finished reading the first two books of the Inheritance Trilogy and he remarked how much they mirror Star Wars and LoTR. Below is a guest posting by Mr. R which lays out the similarities of the original Star Wars and Eragon [...]

High Definition

HBO is showing Serenity in HiDef and it is so very pretty. –Jane, BDH in my living room

Beerfest

Friday, on my first date as a married woman, Mr. R took me to see Beerfest. I know that sounds like the most romantic thing in the world to you, but Mr. R knows how to make me laugh. Beerfest is brought to screens everywhere from the minds of Broken Lizard, the ensemble that made [...]

All Your Snakes

All Your Base made the rounds among the Nintendo Generation when I was in college. It still makes me laugh. What is not funny about badly translated early video games set to techno music? Nothing! Except, Snakes on a Plane spoofs. Gentle readers, I give you “All Your Snakes.” –Jane, you have no chance to [...]

Cowabunga, Dude!

Something a little less serious today. The comments on one of my Immersion posts made me think about something I used to love as a kid: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Being the librarian I am, I looked around on the web and was surprised to see that Warner Brothers is releasing a new TMNT movie [...]

4 Movies and a Weekend

In which I discuss four movies via a Movie Roundup, all spoiler free: Mr. Rochester and I started the weekend out with Super Troopers, an old favorite full of silly comedy. On Sunday, we went to see X-Men: The Last Stand with some friends. My gripes are similar to Jenica’s, but overall I thought it [...]