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Up

May 2009

Pixar’s latest film, Up, isn’t the studio’s greatest, but it was a heartwarming odd-couple adventure… especially for dog lovers. Definitely worth seeing in 3D, which added a lot to the peril of some of the high-flying adventure. The film was something a little different from Pixar; a bit more understated with more of a tug [...]

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels

March 2009

Lightsaber Duels is a game that really highlights just how much of a gimmick the Wiimote is. Truthfully, the Wii’s controller is not what it seems at first glance: it can only really sense basic movements, and it can’t really be used to represent an object in completely 3D space. In this game, each of the [...]

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

August 2008

First, you have to understand what this is: it’s the first few episodes of a half-hour television series which will air on a children’s cartoon channel. If you go in thinking it is the next epic “Episode” in the Star Wars saga, you’ll be sorely disappointed. But if you take it for what it really [...]

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Wall-E

July 2008

I went into this thinking that it was the kind of story I would love as a child of the 80s (and fan of Silent Running, E.T., Short Circuit, Romie-0 and Julie-8, etc.), but the film turned out to be overrated. It was a solid Pixar story (and better than Cars), but [...]

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