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Reagan: The Man, the Myth And the Movie

by Charles Bradley

Amazing! The acting is brilliant, and the American history must be shared with every American from 9 to 99. All of us who lived when Reagan reigned as POTUS know the historical accuracy of this film is remarkable. I didn’t believe Hollywood could make a movie that fairly reflected the greatness of the Man and, … Read more

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Warcraft: How Did the Cult Game Appear on the Big Screen?

by Guest Contributor

Even if you are very far from the world of computer games, we are sure that you have definitely heard the name of the game “Warcraft” at least once in your life.

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“Don’t Let Cancel Culture Grinches Strip Your Joy from Christmas”

by Skip

“It’s Christmas Eve! It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be!

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Apple Cinemas

Closed New Hampshire Movie Theaters to Reopen This August

by Steve MacDonald

Boston-based Apple Cinema (no relation to Apple, the over-priced, sweat-shop, china ass-kissing corporate beast) has acquired several theaters run by Cinemagic that were shuttered by the political response to the Wuhan Virus.

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The Oscars – If Somebody Watched It, It Wasn’t Me!

by Skip

Disclaimer: I don’t like 98% of most movies. I hate sitting through them without the possibility of multitasking. And most of Hollywood’s offerings aren’t worth the spit in my mouth. Furthermore, if I want to get preached at, I go to church. So, now this.

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Hollywood Hypocrites Gun Violence shooting

How about a real “conversation” about guns?

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If we are about to start “having a conversation” about guns before adding new legislation to previous legislation, which doesn’t stop violence, how about some new, sensible ideas I am sure progressives can support.

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Continues – Third Movie is Happening

by Steve MacDonald

Call it a palate cleanser for people over 40? 50? Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are reprising their roles thirty years after the original. (I did actually say Beeth-Oven just the other day). William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan are back for ‘Bill & Ted 3: Face the Music.’ They’ve got a Twitter page … Read more

Palate Cleanser – Iron Man 3

by Steve MacDonald

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.)  

Red Box Review: Battleship

by Steve MacDonald

battleshipLet’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.  If you try to sit through the set up you’ll never make it to the good part.  And it was good.  Almost as if it were a different movie.

When you see the objects hurtling toward the earth’s atmosphere, that is probably the best place to start.

If you’ve got premium channels, by the way, the movie is currently available there as well (HBO I think), and worth the DVR space, assuming you skip the beginning.

So do you want spoilers?

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Star Trek – Into Darkness

by Steve MacDonald

Cuz we needs sumpin sides pol-ticks.

Silver Circle, the Movie

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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

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

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

Oz The Great and Powerful

by Steve MacDonald

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

Red Box Review: PROMETHEUS

by Steve MacDonald

PrometheusPrometheus 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 is not the worst value for the money.

Actually, the effects are worth the $1.20.  It’s quite beautiful to look at.  But I was never all that invested with the plot or the characters (except for Captain Janek), and while there was nothing wrong with any of the performances I just never got into it.

You want to hear the premise? (Spoiler Alert)

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Star Wars Episode 7 Due in 2015

by Steve MacDonald
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Disney Owned Lucasfilm Planning next trilogy

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 before hand.

Yes, I did say 4 billion dollars. (Talk about Hakunah Matata.)

There is (obviously) all sorts of speculation about the project(s) not the least of which is what will George Lucas’ role be in a new trilogy now that his original vision has run its course?

My personal thoughts?

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The Hunger Games

by Steve MacDonald

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

Red Box Review – The Darkest Hour

by Steve MacDonald

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 patience as I try to fine tune the end product.   FireFox 13.0.1 users may not be able to see this audio player–just follow this link instead.  If you’d rather read the transcript you may do so on the jump.

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Coolest President Ever?

by Steve MacDonald

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

The Avengers Movie – Frikkin Awesome!

by Steve MacDonald

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

Are 3D Movies The Future Of Cinema?

by Steve MacDonald
Is 3D worth the extra cost and is it the future of cinema
Is 3D worth the extra cost

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 so. ?

And the problems are related.  Movies in 2D are already too expensive.  3D, which is the Mc Donald’s Drive-Thru cashiers equivalent of adding the apple pie to every order because there is no alternative, puts the big screen experience for the average American family out of reach.  My response to that is to just stay home, and not just because you can’t get a lower ticket price if you bring your own 3D glasses.  I have discovered what I like to call my Red Box mentality.  It goes something like this.

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