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Entries from September 2008

Event: Archon - October 3-5, 2008

September 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Podcasting What’s In it For Me?

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Podcasting Workshop

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Using New Media to Build Your Community

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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 to [...]

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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 drops to [...]

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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. [...]

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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 a man-crush [...]

 
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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.
#3 My [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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BSP Episode 075: Wargames

September 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

This week we discuss the movie Wargames.  Tony and Tony were able to catch a 25th Anniversary screening of the film at a local theater.

Come listen and marvel as we discuss the film and leave the mics running longer than we probably should.
Next week we discuss A Few Good Men and Archon.

 
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News Briefs

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

An interesting quote from an interview with JJ Abrams in AMC’s Sci-fi Scanner regarding William Shatner and the New Star Trek movie: Q: How do you react to William Shatner’s ire at not having a role in the movie? A: It was very tricky. We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a [...]

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Weekend Box Office For September 5 - 7

September 8th, 2008 · No Comments

#1 Bangkok Dangerous from LGF takes #1 this weekend bringing in $7,800,000. Bangkok showed in 3473 theaters up 121 and has earned a total of $83,839,000. Bangkok cost $92 million to make.
#2 Tropic Thunder from Paramount drops to #2 taking in $7,500,000, down 34%, in 3446 theaters, down 27. Tropic has grossed $96,811,000 and cost $70 million.
#3 House Bunny from Sony drops to #3 this [...]

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Theatrical Review: Traitor

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

In 1978 in Yemen, young Samir Horn sees his father killed in a car-bombing terrorist incident. Flash forward to now, and Samir is trafficking explosives to a terrorist organization. Devout in his Muslim faith, Samir proves to be a valuable asset to the terrorist cell that he’s trying to sell to and is [...]

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BSP Episode 074: Swing Vote

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Laziness, because I just want to get this out… more later.

 
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