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Not unlike Jack & the Beanstalk , I was reading The Gingerbread Man to my kids recently. We have about 3 different versions of the story in the house. Here's a breakdown of what usually happens. A gingerbread man is made, but then takes off and teases anyone that tries to catch him. The baker who spent the time making the gingerbread man is the first to be outrun by the little food item no matter how hard he or she (depending on which version your reading) runs. Eventually the gingerbread man…

Every so often, a movie comes along. That about sums up GI Joe: the Rise of Cobra.

Here is just another of infititely available examples of why the English language is so complicated. I think the following setence makes perfect sense, and that is really weird: I had a Doctor's appointment today for which I had to fast but was so fast asleep that I woke up late, making me leave the house so fast that I forgot to make the door fast.

I went to see the Ratchet and Clank movie this weekend. My youngest, who's 8, wanted to see it, so it took him and my eldest who's a couple years older. My youngest had fun with it, more so than my oldest, which I think is a good representation of the audience that it's geared towards. So yes, there is an audience out there that this movie is for. But what about me?

I think it's silly that McDonald's has got the restaurant sponsorship for the Olympics. Could there be another restaurant as far away from the world of health, strength and discipline than McD's?

I saw something interested this past week. It was a commercial for the Canadian Armed Forces.

I've got no problem with the fact that more and more stores are charging for plastic bags; they want you to bring your own reusable bag, and that's fine. But because I bring my bag, does that really mean I have to pack it? Did they cut your salary as well to help with costs? No? Well could you please open the bag I put on your counter before my merchandise and fill it up? If you want me to pack the bag then give me a self serve line without a cashier. It's not like the attitude of most of th…

It was okay. Yeah, just "okay" for me. Christoph Waltz was wonderful, and deserved the Oscar for best supporting actor; but how many times can Tarantino make the same movie? Seriously, he's using all the same tricks, but his dialogue is becoming more realistic... which is to say mundane. Okay, so I'm coming down a little hard on it; it was alright. It had a strong cast, although the team known as the Bastards did not seem to have a lot of screen time; you hardly got to know any of them. It had i…

Angels & Demons is the film sequel to the DaVinci Code staring Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor. I think the books were released in a different order than the movies though.

State of Play is a drama/political thriller, I guess you would say. It stars Russel Crowe, Rachel McAdams, and Ben Affleck, with a good supporting cast. Crowe and McAdams play reports that start on 2 different stories that end up converging to a much bigger story with Affleck's congressman character caught in the middle. It was alright. It was a good Friday night movie to sit back and watch with a snack. Interesting enough to keep you watching, although some momentum was lost by the end and I…

Pandorum is a sci-fi horror movie where a man awakens on a space ship with memory loss while other passengers are slowly introduced and he needs to start up the main reactor while avoiding deadly flesh eating monsters while the earth has blown up while trying to colonize a new planet while fighting off a mental condition brought on from such voyages causing paranoia and the space crazies! [inhales]. Phew... busy movie.

It was one of those days where I thought of something funny and that made me smile... a huge smile. Then as I thought of it more, I started to laugh. Oh, and did I mention I was walking down the street by myself? So all these strangers around me are now doing a poor job of averting their eyes and wondering "Why did this lunatic just break out into laughter for no apparent reason? Will my life end at the hands of this crazy person?"

I saw Traitor this week. it was good. It's one of those international terrorist, FBI investigation type movies, along the same lines as Body of Lies ( but BoL was better ).

So, I was reading through some cards of this kids game. The idea is that there's a set of clues to something and you have to guess what it is based on those clues. There was one line in particular that caught my eye: "Stick your finger in my hole." Let's just pause for a moment and take that in. Wait... maybe that's not that term I want to use. (The answer is "donut" by the way.)

We saw Ant-Man on the weekend, and I thought it was very good! That got me thinking as to how I would rank the recent run of Marvel movies, and this is what I came up with.

So, I haven't watched any of the E3 conferences; it just didn't happen this year. I'm not feeling too bad about it though. Based on what I've heard, mostly through people on my Twitter feed, here are some of my thoughts (focusing on the Sony conference): The thing I'm most excited for is Insomniac's new Spider-man game! Insomniac can put out some great games, and I have a soft spot for Spider-man games in general, so this seems like it could be a great pairing. It does look like they're going…

The Imaginarium attempts to provide a modern tale of a classic scenario. A man makes a deal with the devil and wins; but it turns out that winning is not at all as glorious as it was suppose to be. In this case, the man is Dr. Parnassus. He won a bet granting him immortal life. After a few centuries he grew tired of immortality. His eyes caught a view of woman and love at first sight was the result. In a second deal with the Devil he was granted youth and mortality so that he could marry this wo…

Tron: Legacy did about as well as a sequel to Tron could do, considering much of the magic of the first one was based on the newest and uniqueness of it all.

I've played a little bit of Battlefield 3 and Battlefield Bad Company recently. This is a summary of a comparative first impressions. Plus a little backstory about getting some replacement PS3 controllers.

I have to start by saying that when it comes to sub-sandwich places, I am a subway guy. That's what I'm used to. So I ventured into a Quiznos, since it was close by one day. I hadn't gone to one in years, and figured I'd give it another shot. What a pain.