This is the first in what I’m going to call EMVisionaries – a new series of interviews with people who are creating technologies and services that are changing the “world” we’re living in one technology at a time. The people featured here will be web technologist, environmental folks and people creating next gen audio/visual experiences. […]
Television: Gossip Girl Sets the Stage for The Age of Dissonance
“When God closes one door, he opens a play” Gossip Girl makes it return to the CW Network lineup on Monday March 16th at PM EST with an episode that finds the senior class putting on the play ‘The Age of Innocence’ amid their own lives filled with the usual dealings of lies, deceits, […]
New On DVD: ER The Complete Tenth Season
Healing is teamwork and science. Instant decisions and best guesses. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, 24/7 readiness. It is learning, always learning. County General is a teaching hospital. And each day it presents its weary students and dedicated doctors with an unexpected instructor called experience.The ambulances are ready to unload more compulsively watchable tales […]
MANGA: 20th Century Boys: Nostalgia, Destiny, Conspiracies and Friend
Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys is an odd and interesting manga. It’s about a group of men who formed a club when they were kids and now find the symbol they used for their club appearing in their adult lives. As Kenji and his friends come together for the funeral of one of their old […]
MANGA: Oishinbo, A la Carte: Japanese Cuisine –Estranged Father and Son Coerced to Devise the Ultimate Menu!
Oishinbo is a long-running manga series that encompasses more than one hundred issues in Japan. Perhaps it’s because VIZ Media is uncertain about the North American reaction to a manga about the world of cooking and food culture, but the North American market they have chosen to publish a kind of “greatest hits” series of […]
TELEVISION: Kings Brings The Story of David To Life In An Alternate Universe!
The story of David’s conquest of the giant, Goliath, is timeless – the little guy defeating the much bigger guy because he isn’t taken seriously [and with the hand of God to guide him]. Of course, the rest of the story isn’t as well remembered because it can’t be boiled down into three words like […]
TELEVISION: Cold Case: When is A Standard Procedural Not a Standard Procedural?
Cold Case [CBS, 9/8C] deals with a team of detectives that solve “cold” cases – cases that that have long since been given up on – usually because some pertinent information has floated to the surface, figuratively speaking. The one thing they are completely unprepared for is a case that involves the here and now […]
BLU-RAY REVIEW: Things We Lost In The Fire
I think Sheldon summed this film up perfectly when he says that “Things We Lost in the Fire is a stunning film that does more than just position Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in the Oscar® race. It’s an affirmation that small things can prevent life from being a bitch. It’s a film that […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Race to Witch Mountain, Good clean fun. Michelle’s Take.
I love Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, he has that “It” quality that makes me want to watch him no matter what he does. He’s moved away from the action role stereotype and has gone into the Disney Family movie. A move many muscle bound stars like Stalone, Vin Diesel and Arnold have tried and failed […]
BLU-RAY REVIEW: A Mighty Heart
I just finished watching the depressing Things We Lost In The Fire, how do I follow that up? With the equally depressing, overwrought drama A Mighty Heart, which Angelina Jolie was nominated for her work as the wife of Daniel Pearl an American Journalist working for The Wall Street Journal who went missing for 10 […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Race to Witch Mountain – Galaxies of Fun!
I have fond memories of the Witch Mountain movies of the seventies [though not so much for the TV version from 1995 – despite the presence of such cult icons as Vincent Schiavelli and Brad Dourif], so I approached this update/re-imagining with no little trepidation. Nostalgia can be a terrible thing. Race to Witch Mountain […]