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Chapter 25: Shell Cottage

by Dave the Longwinded July 21, 2010

Shell Cottage is simultaneously two sorts of places to me. Growing up in Kentucky, we often made Gatlinburg, Tennessee a vacation destination. And the best way to stay in the Smoky Mountains is in a cottage, cabin, or chalet, especially if many people are involved. The best of these lodgings somehow manage to be intimate, [...]

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Spider-Man Reboot

by Dave the Longwinded July 2, 2010

Hollywood seems to rebooting everything these days. Some are very, very good. As long-time THH readers know, the recent Batman films are among my favorites. The Dark Knight, in my opinion, is one of the top four or five movies of the last decade. Others are attempts to reboot films or franchises that were already [...]

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Gamerizing Dante’s Inferno

by Dave the Longwinded February 3, 2010

Okay, so “gamerize” is a term I just made up. But, as a full-time grad student, now, I have some license to do such things. In fact, it’s sort of expected of us so long as we take at least ten double-spaced pages to define the term. But I’ll spare me the pain of writing [...]

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Favorite Movie Quotes!!!

by Dave the Longwinded February 2, 2010

With the inspiration of revgeorge, and the urging of Red Rocker, I shall open up this little post for us all to provide and discuss some of our favorite movie quotes. Whether you remember Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, George Clooney in Oh Brother, Where Art Though?, or Michael Gamb… Well, I guess I shouldn’t get [...]

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A Few Images from the Harry Potter Themepark

by Dave the Longwinded January 18, 2010

A few days ago, someone from the Orlando Sentinel provided some photos they took at the Universal Themepark showing the construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. If you picked up the Blu Ray of Half-Blood Prince, then you saw the special in the extras section that was mostly a CGI tour of the [...]

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Sneak Peek at Deathly Hallows

by Dave the Longwinded December 7, 2009

As the DVD and Blu Ray for Half-Blood Prince comes out this week, some of the extra features have sprung up on the web and it blew up the #harrypotter stream in my Twitter feed! Below is a roughly two minute video from  Daily Motion with a quick look at some of the scenes and [...]

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Chapter 15: The Goblin’s Revenge

by Dave the Longwinded November 30, 2009

This chapter opens with an ominous moment: Harry searching for a place to bury Moody’s eye. He does so under “the oldest, most gnarled, and resilient-looking tree he could find.” Harry’s symbolism is clear, and the scene will be repeated later. All-in-all, this chapter has an Empire Strikes Back feel to it. Our heroes are [...]

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Paranormal Activity and Fear

by Dave the Longwinded October 19, 2009

Like a lot of the general movie-going public, Jamie and I plunked down some change to check out Paranormal Activity Friday night. First, my quick review: very, very good. The story is simple, and the audience is really supposed to focus on the characters as they sink ever deeper into their fear over what is [...]

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