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Entries from September 2008
Event: Archon – October 3-5, 2008
September 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Contest: Take 20Q Star Trek to Warp Speed and Win Big!
September 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Take 20Q Star Trek to Warp Speed and Win Big! 20Q.net is putting its artificial intelligence (A.I.) into warp speed to bring players 20Q™ STAR TREK, the latest version of the hugely popular game that can “read your mind.” By choosing a person, place or thing from the Star Trek Universe, you use your wits [...]
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Weekend Box Office For September 26 – 28
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
#1 Eagle Eye from Paramount takes #1 this weekend bringing in $29.2 million. Eye showed in 3510 theaters and cost $80 million to make. #1 Nights In Rodanthe from Warner Bros. debuts at #2 this weekend bringing in $13.5 million. Nights showed in 2704 theaters, its budget is unknown. #3 Lakeview Terrace from Screen Gems [...]
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Theatrical Review: Eagle Eye
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
As our movie starts, the U.S. government and military are tracking who they believe to be a Mid-East terrorist mastermind and they have the opportunity to strike, but all intel points that there is only a 51% chance of certainty that this is their man, and worse, he appears to be attending a funeral. The [...]
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BSP Episode 076: A Few Good Men
September 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This one is horribly late. No excuses, but to make up for it we should have another episode dropping in the next few days. This one is horribly late. No excuses, but to make up for it we should have another episode dropping in the next few days. In this one Adam and Tony display [...]
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News Briefs
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments
According to Studio Briefing the Coppola Restoration of The Godfather is being released today (Tuesday) as a five-disc collection of all three Godfather films, as well as two discs of bonus features, on DVD ($73.00) and Blu-ray disc ($120.00). In an interview with USA Today Francis Ford Coppola, who directed the original ’70s films, said [...]
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Weekend Box Office For September 19 – 21
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
#1 Lakeview Terrace from Screen Gems takes #1 this weekend bringing in $15.6 million. Terrace showed in 2464 theaters and cost $20 million to make. #2 Burn After Reading from Focus drops to #2 taking in $11.2 million, down 41%, in 2657 theaters, up 6 over last. Burn has grossed $36,401,000 and cost $37 million. [...]
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Theatrical Review: Lakeview Terrace
September 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Abel Turner is a police officer, and a single father trying to raise two kids in a world that he knows is tough as hell and on top of this, he’s a black man who’s a racist, but somewhat understandably so, but it’s controlled.. to a point. That point gets raised when in his neighborhood [...]
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Theatrical Review: Righteous Kill
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Two top New York City police detectives, nicknamed Turk and Rooster, are continually frustrated at seeing collars of theirs go free by technicalities, and as the movie starts, one of them is seemingly revealing himself to be a killer, working outside the law to exact his own brand of vigilante justice. Two other detectives are [...]
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Theatrical Review: Burn After Reading
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Osborne Cox is a CIA analyst who’s now quit his job because of the threat of a downgrading, given the excuse of a “drinking problem,” but due to his own explosive nature, we see it’s more than that. His cold-hearted wife, Katie, reacts badly to the news, covertly planning a divorce while carrying on an [...]
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