This week we have a reader-submitted “guest” Friday Five. Special thanks to @rogueplanet for this list of … The Five Most Badass Noncommissioned Officers (Sergeants) Featured in a Movie: 5. Career Sergeant Zim (Clancy Brown) – Starship Troopers 4. Sergeant Oddball (Donald Sutherland) – Kelly’s Heroes 3. Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger) – Platoon 2. [...]
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I don’t even know where to begin here. This movie is awesome. This movie is seriously awesome. Go see it. Note: Awesomeness of movie not guaranteed for those born after 1975. But if you were born in ’73 — like me — you will laugh your ass off.
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Saturday January 30, 2010
With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet, [...]
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When I was a kid I thought that no year would ever be able to beat 1983 for movies. In addition to Return of the Jedi, Vacation, and WarGames — three of my all-time favorites — that year also saw the release of Scarface, The Right Stuff, Risky Business, Octopussy, Monty Python’s The Meaning of [...]
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Wednesday December 23, 2009
I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. Let me make it absolutely clear that I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. But … I will admit that I am fanatical about some things. Since I was a sophomore in high school — a mind-bogglingly shocking twenty-something years ago [...]
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