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Neo news – we have become Matrix Reloaded headquarters with multiple reviews and news of the new film covering a bewilderingly wide range of opinion and angle of observation listed here in reverse chronological order, to whit: The MILFtrix Re-boner’d – by Jim Treacher Warning: Spoilers for, and scatterbrained whining …

How wooden have the first two Star Wars prequels been? They are bringing back two robots and a wookie to put some humanity back into the series: George Lucas is bringing back the classic characters Chewbacca the Wookie, C-3PO and R2-D2 for the upcoming “Star Wars Episode III.” The director …

We were just talking about the Gulf War 1 film Three Kings, and its applications to the current war in Iraq. Some American soldiers may have been a little too influenced by the film’s plot: U.S. forces have recovered more than $600 million from hiding places near Saddam Hussein’s palace …

Second Potter video flies out of stores: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” worked its magic on the home video front, selling more than 6 million VHS and DVD combined units nationwide in its first day in release, according to several industry sources. While Warner Home Video executives declined …

For the three years it ran in the late ’60s Batman was my favorite show. I was between 8 and 10 when it ran, so I was young enough to think it exciting, but old enough to get the jokes and know the whole thing was pretty silly, but in …

Today is the day for Poetry Against the War, which grew out of Laura Bush’s misguided cancellation of a White House poetry event that the poets were planning to turn into an anti-war event – better to have let the poets had their say, then refuted them than to give …

Via Glenn-omir, grim tidings from the Return of the King film front: why buy into EITHER the Star Wars OR the Lord of the Rings universe when you can have both? A recently leaked trailer for The Return of the King has Tolkien fans outraged over the apparent addition of …

The new Lord of the Rings flick, The Two Towers, debuts tonight at midnight. Many hobbit hearts are beating out of their furry little chests. We go to very few movies in the theater anymore – unless they are suitable for a 3 year-old – but Dawn has insisted that …

There was much pontificating and speculation that 24 was a one-time deal, that the novelty of a mystery-adventure TV show taken in real time, one hour at a time, had worn out its welcome last year. I had concerns of my own because serial TV has a very hard time …

So we’re in the middle of that extended, sort of oblong, Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Other than the obligatory Thanksgiving eve night out (the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is often the biggest night of the year for bars, clubs, bistros, etc) and the Thursday stuff-fest itself, the rest of the weekend …