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Book Review: The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand

The Metaphysical Club is a Pulitzer Prize winning intellectual history of American thought. This book follows the development of the intellectual thinkers: Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey. According to Menand, these men were at the forefront of the intellectual...

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Book Review: Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian

Master and Commander is the first book in the twenty volume Aubrey-Maturin series. It is in this volume that we are first introduced to Jack Aubrey, a newly made captain in the British Navy. He is still a young man and eager for his first command. Aubrey is given command on the H.M.S. Sophie, a...

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Movie Review: Electra (2005)

Electra (2005) If your hot for Ms. Garner, skip the review and just go see the movie. I never read any of the comics; but, she has the basic super hero background. Saw her Mom killed by demon ninja, trained by a blind sensei, goes rogue, but, does what is right in the end. Rehashes the...

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DVD Review: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975)

This DVD release has three classic Peanuts cartoon specials on it. All three were Valentine s Day related episodes. The episodes are Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975), You re in Love, Charlie Brown (1967), and It s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977). While the episodes vary in...

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Movie Review: The Producers (2005)

How exactly do you make a movie musical based on a theatrical musical based on a movie about making a musical? Very carefully. Susan Stohman directs this adaption of the Broadway musical which she also directed and she retains some of the major cast from the Broadway show. Matthew Broderick and...

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Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

A film by Chris Columbus This is the first film in the Harry Potter series and it is adapted from J.K. Rowling s novel of the same title. A common complaint about movies that have been adapted from a book is that the movie strays too far from the book and that it makes too many changes. This is...

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Movie Review: In the Cut (2003)

A film by Jane Campion I had fairly low expectations going into In the Cut that I couldn t help but enjoy the movie more than I thought I would. The critical reaction to the movie has been negative, and though I see the point of the critics, I only partially agree. The problem, as I see it,...

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Movie Review: Attack of the Clones (2002)

A film by George Lucas Attack of the Clones takes place ten years after the events of The Phantom Menace . Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is an Apprentice in the Jedi order and is studying under Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). When Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) from Naboo barely...

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Book Review: Dragon's Kin - Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey

Dragon s Kin is Anne McCaffrey s latest offering in her long-running and best-selling Dragonriders of Pern series. It is also the first time she has permitted a co-author into the Pern universe: her son, Todd. This time McCaffrey tells the story of an earlier time in Pern s history. The time is more...

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Musical Theatre Review - Monty Python's Spamalot

A joint review with Library Chick. A musical by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. Even if you know the lines from Monthy Python and the Holy Grail - and anyone who attended college from the mid-seventies through the eighties should - MPFC's Eric Idle's theatrical send-up will pleasantly...

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