Monthly Archive for: ‘November, 2007’

  • This HD leopard changes his spots

    As some of you may know, I made the jump to the HD formats a few months ago. I did so via Blu-Ray & HD-DVD drives for the PC. Lacking HDCP encryption support on both my HD monitor and my front projector, I was forced …

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  • Quick Note

    Just popping in briefly to say that I haven’t dropped off the face of the Earth. Having a tech problem with the blog, which this time is completely my fault. After playing with a couple components, I’ve screwed up a couple minor things (like posting …

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  • Ponderings For 2007-11-05

    Hope y’all had a happy Guy Fawkes Day Today’s big news is Google’s amusingly off-center announcement of their open platform initiative for mobile devices called Android. People were expecting the announcement of a “GPhone” and instead got the reality of hundreds of them. Meanwhile, Google …

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  • Michael Clayton (10/10)

    A fantastic character thriller filled with excellent performances and a great script. Writing: This is one of those marvelous morality tales where pretty much everyone exists at one level of gray or another. When described as a miracle worker, the character of Michael Clayton quickly …

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  • The Heartbreak Kid (3/10)

    This remake makes a number of mistakes, not the least of which is being directed by the Farrelly brothers. I don’t think I’ve seen the original version, but I have to imagine it works better than this remake. Writing: The single biggest mistake in this …

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  • Ponderings For 2007-11-03

    I spent a couple evenings this week digging through all the commentaries and extras on the new DVD set of My So-Called Life. Such a nice set. They did an admirable job getting interview material from nearly all the cast and primary crew. Some nicely …

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