Author: Chuck
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We Sold a Zoo
Life of Pi is spectacular even for people jaded by spectacle, and it might even be meaningful to people jaded by pop spirituality.
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Everything Crashed Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
American Horror Story: Asylum is either awful with a few moments of brilliance, or brilliant in its awfulness. Or both. Or neither.
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Concern Tron
Wreck It Ralph is by every measure a movie that only Disney could’ve made, and it’s the best movie to come out of Disney Animation Studios in years.
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Tabletized
Impressions of the iPad mini and Microsoft Surface, and the realization that I just don’t know what the hell is going on anymore.
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Logical Disasters
CNN is filled with people who don’t have enough sense to get in out of the rain during a hurricane. They’re still smarter than the yabbos paying them for advertising.
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The City That Never Blinks
Being a nerd, I have opinions about the Doctor Who mid-season finale, “The Angels Take Manhattan.”
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Just when I thought I was out…
Looper isn’t the time-traveling mob movie we expect, but it may just be the time-traveling mob movie we need.
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Failure to Comply
I can’t tell if Dredd is a satire on hyper-violent action movies, or just an unusually smart and well-made hyper-violent action movie. And I’m not entirely sure that the distinction even matters.
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They Don’t Love You Like Google Loves You
Maps in iOS 6 bring about the downfall of western civilization, and my disillusionment with tech commentary continues.
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Everything is amazing and nobody’s insightful
Tech writers are disillusioned with the iPhone 5, and I’m getting disillusioned with tech writers.