From the monthly archives: May 2008

The X-Files Trailer

By On May 13, 2008 · 16 Comments · In Uncategorized

Oh. My. God.

The new X-Files Movie trailer is up! Video download courtesy of IGN. If you have problems with the video above, you can see it here.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe comes out in theaters July 25th.

For more info, check out the official website at:

http://www.xfiles.com/main.php

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Book Review: Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness

By On May 13, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness

Author: John Layman, Fabiano Neves & June Chung

Genre: Graphic Novel, Horror

Stand alone or series: Second Graphic novel in what is now a collection of 4 Marvel Zombie specials

Summary: (From amazon.com)
This is it true believers, the cross-over of the century begins [...]

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Movie Review: The Orphanage

By On May 12, 2008 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

Title: El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona; “Presented” by Guillermo del Toro; starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, and Roger Príncep

In between all the basketball this weekend, I finally got a chance to watch this movie. El Orfanato is a Spanish horror movie that was released in [...]

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Book Review: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge

By On May 11, 2008 · 11 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Dark Needs at Night’s Edge

Author: Kresley Cole

Review Number: 46

Genre: Parnormal Romance

Stand Alone/Series: Book 4 of Immortals After Dark Series

Summary: Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina in the early 1900s, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with powers, but invisible to the living, she [...]

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Nonsensical Weekend Poll

By On May 9, 2008 · 17 Comments · In Weekend Poll

For this week’s ponderings:

What’s your favorite TV show intro?

The X-Files

Friends

Battlestar Galactica (Remake)

LOST

X-Men (the Animated Series)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Office (US version)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Beverly Hills 90210

Thundercats

Firefly

Transformers

Star Trek (the [...]

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Joint Review: Dead Until Dark

By On May 8, 2008 · 5 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Joint Review

Title: Dead Until Dark

Author: Charlaine Harris

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Stand Alone/Series: Book 1 of Southern Vampire Mysteries

Summary: (from amazon.com)
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn’t date much because of her “disability” to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie [...]

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Book Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice

By On May 8, 2008 · 6 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Warrior’s Apprentice

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Genre: Science Fiction

Stand alone or series: One of the many books of the Vorkosigan Saga—this is the first introduction to the main protagonist, Miles Vorkosigan so even though it is not chronologically the first book in the saga, it’s [...]

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Book Review: Dagger-Star

By On May 7, 2008 · 5 Comments · In 4 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Dagger-Star

Author: Elizabeth Vaughan

Genre: Paranormal Romance, according to the publisher…I’d say, Romantic Fantasy

Stand alone or series: Stand alone, but set in the same world as the Warlands trilogy

Summary: (From amazon.com)
After captivating readers with her Chronicles of the Warlands trilogy, Elizabeth Vaughan now returns to that world [...]

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Trailer Madness!

By On May 6, 2008 · 10 Comments · In Uncategorized

In light of all the coolness coming out this summer, we’d like to put up a consolidated post with all the cool trailers that are now out and available!

Which ones work (or don’t work) in your opinion–and which movies are you most excited to see?

The Dark Knight (new trailer shown before [...]

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Book Review: Taking the Heat

By On May 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Taking the Heat

Author: Kathryn Shay

Review number: 44

Genre: Contemporary romance

Stand alone /Series: This is book 3 in the O’Neil family series but it can, quite comfortably, be read as a stand alone.

Summary:Working as the cook at his family’s pub, Liam O’Neil [...]

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