Movies

Palate Cleanser – Iron Man 3

April 11, 2013

This is a featurette that is making the rounds. There’s some actor commentary, a few clips, things blow up….good stuff. (And for my progressive ‘friends’ no–I do not require that you watch it.)

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Let’s keep it simple. Battleship is only good when there are ships and there is a battle. So skip to just before the combat begins, anything that happened in the first 30-40 minutes or so you can work out for yourself by the end, and the battle sequences are a lot of fun to watch. [ Read more ]

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Star Trek – Into Darkness

March 21, 2013

Cuz we needs sumpin sides pol-ticks.

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Silver Circle, the Movie

March 5, 2013

I believe the very first showing of this extraordinary movie was in the Live Free or Die state of New Hampshire. The people who worked on creating it have attended the Free State Project’s Porcupine Freedom Festival every year. Great artists. Even greater political truth-tellers. Hercules movie star and LA truth-teller Kevin Sorbo has worked [ Read more ]

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Movie star Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo: “Everything government touches they destroy.”

March 5, 2013

He really IS Hercules! A Hercules of Freedom, and he’s got some great libertarian movie projects in the works!

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Oz The Great and Powerful

November 15, 2012

Having just mentioned The Wizard of Oz here, and a different franchise prequel here, I guess we might as well share this; It is the Wizard of Oz prequel. Yes dear readers, there is a prequel. And it looks half good and then some. The movie is due out next March. It tells the tale [ Read more ]

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Red Box Review: PROMETHEUS

November 14, 2012

Prometheus is Ridely Scott’s ostentatious pre-boot prequel of the Alien franchise and if you had $1.20 and were not sure whether to buy 0.32 gallons of gas, one-third of a box of cereal, 0.15 pounds of steak, pay full price for a compilation of every Pauly Shore movie ever made (weasel!), or to rent Prometheus…Prometheus [ Read more ]

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Star Wars Episode 7 Due in 2015

October 31, 2012

Looks like Disney bought Lucasfilm for just over 4 billion dollars, and is now plotting the next three Star Wars Movies. “Episode 7″ is already slated for a 2015 release; all other factors remain unknown. Oh, it will probably be in 3D unless that (ticket price raising) fad has died a happy (or unhappy) death [ Read more ]

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The Hunger Games

July 2, 2012

I read all three of these in record time. Two this past weekend. And while there are some curious stabs at environmentalism, and the can’t we all just get along meme, the most power full themes are the terror of absolute tyranny and the fact that we are all damaged goods. I highly recommend them. [ Read more ]

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Red Box Review – The Darkest Hour

June 27, 2012

Steve Casting with a Twist. The culture is always fodder and all politics all the time makes Johnny chop a hole in the bathroom door with an axe. So here’s a different flavor of Audio Pod-casting juice for your thirsty ears. A Red Box movie review: The Darkest Hour. Notes: Thanks for your continued [ Read more ]

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Coolest President Ever?

May 28, 2012

Not Obama, Lord no. 147 years after his presidency he’ll be lucky if there’s any mention of him beyond his being the first black president (After Clinton, of course. That and, perhaps, almost doubling the deficit in three years.) I am referring to Abraham Lincoln, whose “past” has taken a turn toward the macabre in [ Read more ]

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The Avengers Movie – Frikkin Awesome!

May 5, 2012

Some people think too much when they review a movie. Not so at GraniteGrok. I just spent a few hours with my kids at the movies. This is impressive because movies cost too damn much, I don’t make a lot of money, and my preference for Red Box is well documented. For me to haul [ Read more ]

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Are 3D Movies The Future Of Cinema?

January 30, 2012

I read somewhere that within the movie industry there is a growing consensus that 3D movies are the future of the big screen experience. My initial reaction was that this is only true the way unemployment is the future of job growth in Obama’s America. Just because Nancy Pelosi says it is doesn’t make it [ Read more ]

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Who is John Galt?

April 4, 2011

For our Objectivist friends out there. The movie Atlas Shrugged: Part I will soon be opening…on April 15th of course!

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“Politics is downstream from culture.”

March 21, 2011

I like this guy, Bill Whittle. I like what he’s saying, and I like the idea of Declaration Entertainment. I’ll probably join. Check it out:

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“Battle: Los Angeles” TERRIFIC movie!

March 21, 2011

These scummy, low-life aliens come from outer space, they wannna try ta wipe us out and steal our water, right? Oh yeah? Ain’t got a chance. There’s a reason they call the U.S. Marines "America’s 911". Watch Bill Whittle’s review of this new, patriotically subversive movie HERE. Based on Whittle’s review, I saw it yesterday. Great edge-of-your-seat movie! Invading aliens! Humans [ Read more ]

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Atlas Shrugged – The Movie?

February 13, 2011

Someone said this was one of the most anticipated movies…..I….no, I was not anticipating it. In fact I didn’t know they were making it. And having watched the trailer, the first two words to come to my mind were ‘Red Box.’

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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I

November 22, 2010

My children have been raised on Harry Potter. So it is a foregone conclusion that we were going to see it though to the end. And it is not disappointing.
While I cannot comment on how well the movie hews to the book (so far)–we read it so long ago it seems–my oldest son claims they changed a few things, though nothing terribly important seems to have been lost.

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