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Entries from November 2009

Theatrical Review: Ninja Assassin

November 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer, Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika, Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reunion with his former master.”
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Theatrical Review: The Road

November 28th, 2009 · No Comments

When I wrote a review for 2012, I made mention of the fact that while it’s special effects were spectacular, there just seemed to be a little something odd that it’s escape-by-the-seat-of your-pants popcorn movie thrill-ride was being viewed as entertainment considering that it’s backdrop was hundreds of thousands of people meeting their certain death…
Well, [...]

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BSP Episode 122: Home for the Holidays

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments

This one gets EXPLICIT a little.
Hosts & Drinks for this episode:
Tony - Herencia de Plata, over ice.
Darryl - (No idea, someone ask Darryl)
Sarah - 7 and Pepsi, with straight shots of 7 to supplement
Chris - Pepsi Max
David - Dry as a bone. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Next Week’s Movie:
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Hanky Code, as referenced near [...]

 
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Weekend Box Office: November 20-22

November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

#1 New Moon from Summit debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $142.8 million in 4024 theaters. Budget was $50 million.
#2 The Blind Side from Warner Brothers debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $34.1 million in 3110 theaters. Budget is unknown.
#3 2012 from Sony drops from #1 to #3 with [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Fourth Kind

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Taken at face value, The Fourth Kind reports to be about a series of incidents that lead to the idea of alien abduction located around the Nome, Alaska area. A Nome psychiatrist, Dr. Abigail Tyler has found that some of her patients have some commonalities in their lack of sleep and the strange things [...]

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DVD Review: Genre TV Movie Classics from The Warner Archives

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Awhile back, Warner Brothers announced The Warner Archives, a new division that put a lot of Warners-owned movies out for either download or DVD-on-demand release, basically, you won’t find these in stores and other than through illegal means, the only ways I’ve seen at present to get them are either through Warners themselves or Deep [...]

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BSP Episode 121: Red Dawn

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Wolverines!!!!
Hosts & Drinks for this episode:
Tony - the remnants of a bottle of Maker’s Mark (FROM THE BOTTLE)
Chris - Pepsi Max
Darrell -
Drinks: |||F|||||
1:15 Epic nipple.
2:00 Business: Contest on the website; two episodes in the can; Chris jacked up an episode; do our work for us using Google Wave.
5:25 Darrell puts it out into the world.
5:50 [...]

 
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Weekend Box Office: November 13-15

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

#1 2012 from Sony debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $65.2 million in 3404 theaters. Budget was $200 million.
#2 A Christmas Carol (2009) from Buena Vista drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $22.3 million (-25.8%) in 3683 theaters (no change). Total gross to date is $63.2 million. Budget [...]

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Contest: Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars

November 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars is filled with tips, techniques, practice space, and translucent overlays to make you a master of drawing. Start with stick figures, move onto basic shapes, and finish up with the details. Use the included double-tipped metallic-colored pencils and black marker to make 20 Clone Wars characters come to life.
Five [...]

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Theatrical Review: 2012

November 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Sometimes, I gotta wonder what it’s like to hang out with director Roland Emmerich, especially when he’s planning the destruction of either American or religious icons in some of his big budget blockbusters, like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow or currently in the new movie, 2012. I mean is there a childish glee, [...]

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BSP Episode 120: Event Horizon

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments

In this episode, Tony, Adam and Sarah discuss the sci-fi horror film, Event Horizon.
(Note: There is a discussion on Google Wave which will eventually replace these show notes.  If you want an invite, or if you are already on Google Wave and want in on the wave, send an email to tony@… (you know the [...]

 
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Weekend Box Office: November 6 - 8

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

#1 A Christmas Carol (2009) from Buena Vista debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $30.0 million in 3683 theaters. Budget was $200 million.
#2 Michael’s Jackson’s This Is It from Sony drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $13.1 million (-43.4%) in 3481 theaters (no change). Total gross to date [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Box

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Director Richard Kelly loves to play around in the science fiction genre, and he really likes to get strange with it- with his first movie, Donnie Darko he put something out there on the screen that no one had really seen the likes of before, and it met with cult success. With his second [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats

November 7th, 2009 · No Comments

A young Ann Arbor, Michigan journalist named Bob Wilton is going through a bit of a crisis of self- his wife has ran off with his editor and he finds himself really going nowhere where he’s at, and at the start of this story, he’s been introduced to man who is a psychic and has [...]

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BSP Episode 119: Zombieland

November 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

And with this episode we have only one regular episode that has not been released.  It’s the episode we recorded last night.
We are CAUGHT UP!!!!  Specially thanks to Chris ‘the F-in’ Machine’ Amelung for editing the past 26 episodes. From August 31st to October 31st there were 25 episodes totally just under 26 HOURS of [...]

 
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