I am Legend – spoiler free review

Humanity has basically screwed itself over by creating a virus that killed off 90% of the world’s population and turned about 9% of the rest into rabid creatures I dub “zompires” (cos they’re like a combination of vampires and zombies!).
Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the only survivor in New York city and tries to [...]

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Enchanted lives happily ever after

I continue to marvel at the success of Enchanted at the box office. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 94% rating! What, that’s like what the Lord of the Rings trilogy got. Why? I don’t get it. I mean, it’s incredibly predictable and although it is fun and funny, it shouldn’t be enough to catapult it [...]

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The Golden Compass: Non-reader, Non-spoiler thoughts

Yes, so non-Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials reader here.
So way better than Harry Potter.
I want a daemon hare too!
And a talking polar bear.
And a talking ferret.
And a talking dog.
Damnit, I want daemons to be real!

The Olimetre something something is cool. Don’t understand how she can read it though. Psychic or something?
Daniel Craig as Lord [...]

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Kinokuniya is dangerous

Book lovers, don’t throw away last Sunday’s (Dec 2) Sunday Star yet. Look for the feature section – StarMag – and turn to page 21. Look at that nice ad below Daphne’s article. And now, read the fine print.
Yup it’s a 20% discount coupon for books storewide. That means if you present the ad when [...]

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