Battlestar Galactica:Blood and Chrome

I was never a huge fan of Sci-Fi’s remake of Battlestar Galctica, but I did watch it and I did come to like most of the characters.  The spin-off series, Caprica, about the worlds before Cyclons never made much sense.  Why should anyone care that some idiot billionaire make the Cyclons?  And how did it make any sense that his daughter’s soul was the cause of all their problems? Battlestar Galactica:Blood and Chrome was a damned good pilot.  It had a lot of action, a lot of foreshadowing, and I have no problem with following around a young William Adama…

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The Social Network

Before The Social Network movie came out, I had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg.  I certainly had never heard of the many other people who went to battle with him over the billion dollar empire that Facebook has become.  And even now, just a couple of hours after watching The Social Network, I couldn’t tell you who any of these other people are.  Other than the fact that two of them were twins with weird last names who rowed in the Olympics. But I did like the movie.  There is something just flat out amazing about the idea that some…

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