Lots to talk about this week, but first, The Hunger Games, because no one else is really talking about it an it could use a bump. Here’s a few spoiler-filled thoughts. Skip to the underlined section if you’re that one dude who hasn’t seen it yet. A few weeks ago I called the book...
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So, Ben Gazzara died this week. Stop it. I hate talking about actors and directors and writers that I loved dying. He was probably generally best known for his work with John Cassavettes in films like The Killing of a Chinese Bookie or Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder with Jimmy Stewart, though people...
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At 8 p.m. on 1/2/2012, an icon of Central Florida’s attractions industry was unceremoniously euthanized, as Universal permanently shuttered their JAWS! boat ride. I covered the closing of the “mistake on the lake,” and the final reunion of the ride original “skipper” employees, here and here. But I couldn’t miss being there until the...
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Friday, Nov. 11 – Harry Potter Home Entertainment Celebration Now that pesky Halloween is out of the way, the holiday season can officially get underway. To that end (and many others, most involving money or statuettes of golden naked guys), Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter is hosting a three-day marathon – excuse...
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Today, November 6th, 151 years ago (or seven score and 11 years ago, if you will), the nation elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House. Yesterday, November 5th, was also the 56th anniversary of Doc Brown cracking his head open and inventing the flux capacitor, which, indeed, is still fluxing. But enough of that....
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So it looks as if Deathly Hallows pt II doesn’t quite have the legs it was expected to have after smashing so many opening day, weekend and week records. It looks to be handily beaten by Captain America once the final numbers are released Monday. Of course, Harry Potter has made almost $300m in...
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 This past weekend, Orlando’s most profitable underage prestidigitator apparated the biggest pile of cash in his now-concluded academic career. But now that he’s a post-grad, does Harry still have the staying power to pull guests into his park? By now you may have heard that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the...
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So this weekend, we got a bit of a break in the summer action avalanche as the two big releases were the lukewarmly reviewed comedies, The Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses. I didn’t see either (maybe Horrible Bosses on video, but no desire whatsoever to see The Zookeeper), but did get around to seeing Larry Crowne, the affable...
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…and, if you’re feeling a little Harry Potter nuts today, you can watch a live webstream of the event as it happens. It’s still a few hours away from the arrivals, but they’re already broadcasting interviews with the craziest of crazy Potterheads and showing featurettes about the making and all that fun stuff. Still...
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Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today...
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