INTERVIEW WITH JIM BUTCHER

WARNING: Contains a spoiler if you haven’t read Ghost Story yet.

For years now my friends have been bugging me to get into The Dresden Files. I didn’t know what they were, other than a long series of books. They told me it was a fantasy series and I assumed from the title that it was some kind of weird Nazi/Tolkein crossover. Not exactly my cup of tea.

Then, at the start of this year I wound up having to make a long drive and decided to grab a couple of the audiobooks, read by James Marsters. I was hooked from the minute he said “detective wizard.”

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WRECK-IT RALPH [PREVIEW]

The Walt Disney crew have been up and down the animation ladder for a few years now (the underrated Princess and the Frog, the ‘only ok’ Tangled and the ‘did anyone even bother?’ Winnie the Pooh) and their latest outing – which has actually been in and out of development since the 80s (!) – is a surprising delight, and I found myself laughing without irony or guilt and being genuinely moved by characters I cared about. In Wreck-It Ralph, Disney had a rare injection of intelligence that may or may not have to do with their poaching of some Pixar talent, but nonetheless it is very welcome in my heart.

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We’re looking for reviews, one liners, facts, puns, but most importantly your thoughts. Some will go up on the site and on our Twitter page. So procrastinet, or may life withhold all future orange mocha frappechinos. Do it. Do it. #SDCfilms

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FRANKENWEENIE [PREVIEW]

Tim Burton returns to the short film he made in 1984, with feature length claymation fable, Frankenweenie. It’s family friendly Frankenstein, as a science genius boy resurrects his dog after it gets tragically killed. There is the fight between science and rationality and good and bad and life and death, and in the end it’s really sweet.

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KILLING THEM SOFTLY [REVIEW]

If you want to see good things happening to Ray Liotta, then this is not the film for you. However, if you want to see an offbeat dark comedy looking at American politics, economics and bureaucracy framed in the context of a mob killing, then Killing them Softly is time well spent.

It’s 2008 and in the weeks leading up to Obama’s election. There is a recession on, and it’s hitting everyone hard –  including the mob. So, when Markie Trattman’s (Liotta) illegal poker game is held up for the second time, everyone assumes that once again, he is the one responsible. The family calls in Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), hitman and cynic, to investigate, but more importantly, clean up.

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