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Movie: 2012

By: Evan Jacobs

Now that I have seen 2012, I am not only convinced that we have three years to live, I am also convinced that director Roland Emmerich is not as terribly inept as I thought. He likes things on a grand scale, things to which everyone can relate; nature destroying mankind, aliens destroying mankind, teleportation to the other side of the universe (to meet aliens who would try to destroy mankind), and Godzilla. With 2012, which is not the sequel to his last film, 10,000BC, Emmerich is at the helm writing, producing, and directing a film that is just as relatable. This time, the destruction of mankind is caused by the sun’s ejected neutrinos during an interplanetary alignment, which is just nonsensical enough to spark a continental shift on the earth’s surface.

The story centers around author Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a novelist and lonely dad who wishes to ...

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Music: The Foo Fighters' Greatest Hits

By: Monica Davies

The release of a band’s greatest hits collection is normally a time for devoted fans everywhere to rejoice. But since Dave Grohl has been quoted as saying that the band’s recently released Greatest Hits CD feels like an obituary, it’s not necessarily a good sign. However, if your band needs to have an obituary, this one is a very good one to have.

There are songs on this collection covering every album released by the Foos in their 14-year existence, including a few soundtracks and live recordings too. Notably absent though is the intense ballad “Walking After You,” from their 1997 album “The Colour And The Shape.” Both “DOA” and “Resolve” from 2005’s “In Your Honour” are also notable by their absence

The incendiary guitar chords of “All My Life” open the whole album, setting it off on a coruscating wave of masterful rock. If the first ...

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TV: Californication - Season Three

By: Neil Pedley

One of the crowning jewels in Showtime's impressive slate of original programming, this sassy, sexy take on relationships in the new millennium started out as an deceptively layered hymm to the harmony of monogamy and the blissful intoxication of a happy marriage. Wearing the hat of a hip singles show, espousing the joy of hooking up, laced with copious amounts of gorgeous, naked flesh, those who stuck around found the balled of cynical writer Hank Moody to be one mourning the lost art of seduction, the death of romance, and pining for just a little bit of love in today's lovemaking. A modern day libertine to be sure, Hank was a tortured soul who deep down just wanted to be with his wife, Karen.

Bidding goodbye to her at the end of season two, and with it the rock upon which the show is built, this misfiring third season ...

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Book: Fragment By Warren Fahy

By: Chris Roberts

Almost exactly a year ago Michael Crichton, famed science fiction author, tragically passed away causing dad's everywhere much consternation. Who, they wondered, could possibly step in and provide them with trashy sci-fi stories sprinkled with bits of hard science factoids with as much skill as Crichton? Well, with the publication of Fragment, the debut novel of Warren Fahy, the race to replace him has officially begun. And if you're going to launch your career off the back of another book then a nonchalant rip-off of Jurassic Park is as good of place as any to start.

The adventure begins when a group of self-absorbed reality TV stars, who are filming their nautical trip around the world for a show called SeaLife, stumble across a mysterious island that has remained totally isolated for hundreds of millions of years. The crew find out rather quickly that this ecosystem is filled ...

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Hello--

Thank you for reading my review and taking the time to comment on it.

As for my view that it was your view that humans are bad for the planet. I will admit that perhaps I projected myself into the blank spaces and possibly jumped to conclusions but I did spend a decent amount of time thinking about the message of the book before stating it in my review. Thatcher, villain or otherwise, is given an endless supply of strong speeches and strong points on the negative impact humans have had and will continue to have on Earth. In contrast to that the heroes of this story, I assume them to be Nell and Geoffrey, are given as their proof that intelligent beings will not destroy their environment a made up creature who lives on a made up island.

I also don't automatically believe that a hero always speaks for the authors. There are other more commercial reasons a character could be a hero and best I can tell "humans are good" and "we shouldn't nuke Hender" would probably sell better than the opposite. My favorite thing about this book was the way in the reader was left to decide for themselves what would be the best course of action. Nell and Geoffrey may have had their moral compasses tuned in to one direction but I never once felt condescended to. I myself, never a fan of preemptive strikes, was all in favor of pushing the button to shock and awe Hender's Island off the map. But in the end if you were going for a pro human approach then I misread.

- Posted by Chris Roberts @ 11/10/09, 1:59 PM

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