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Movie Review: Sweeney Todd
Now available on Prime Now available on Roku This movie is a masterpiece in many ways. The genius of Tim Burton comes through in his dark and morbid sets, and smooth transitions from scene to scene. The faint hearted, those who are petrified by murder and those repulsed by the sight of crimson red or Read more
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Book Review and Summary: Microtrends
While Alivin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Nasbitt’s Megatrends made predictions about the coming of the information age, the global economy and other sweeping changes that would change the world as we know it, the author of this book attempts to identify smaller more subtle changes that are extremely important but may skip the naked Read more
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Movie Review: The Last King of Scotland(2006)
As a young boy, I heard numerous tales on the atrocities of Amin. I was thus extremely keen on watching this movie. I was not disappointed. This is easily one of the most memorable movies I’ve seen. The Oscar winning performance from Forest Whitekar is nothing short of mesmerizing. ‘The Last King of Scotland’ is Read more
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Book Review: The Brothers Bulger
Prolog The Brothers Bulger is the second book I have reviewed, the first being Black Mass. While Black Mass looks at the story from a comparatively objective view, this book written by conservative talk show host Howie Carr, pulls no punches in the author’s disdain for the siblings. It goes into a lot more details Read more
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Movie Review: The Prestige (2006)
This is a spellbinder from Christopher Nolan, director of Batman begins and Memento. Like the former its atmosphere is dark and like the latter its plot moves continuously from past to present, keeping the viewer gripped to the screen. The movie reunites Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale and veteran thespian Michael Caine, the cast of Batman Read more
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Downtown Disney and McDonalds
With one afternoon to spare, after our once-in-a-lifetime NASA trip, a cohort and I chose to check out the Orlando area. Largest McDonalds We went to the largest McDonalds. Everything was larger. The serving area, the sitting area and the children’s play area. There were a few items on the Menu that were new. We Read more
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