http://dylanduarte.com Freelance Writer Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:19:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What the math? Like most of you know, and by most of you I mean Jeff Morin, I'm a huge fan of the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time. I also like dollah dollah bills, ya'll. So this is the best dollar bill desecration that I've even seen. http://dylanduarte.com/?p=318 This is what you get when you cross The Punisher! You get punished right through physical objects. http://dylanduarte.com/?p=310 Armored starts off as a somewhat promising deviation from the standard heist movie and then quickly degenerates into formulaic action fare. The plot revolves around a team of armored truck guards led by Matt Dillion. They decide that, on a day when they're transporting an unusually large amount of money, ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=296 Some of the promotional material would have you believe that Planet 51 is about a human astronaut that lands on an alien world and is hunted out of fear and ignorance. In reality, Planet 51 is about Lem, a teenage alien (we're never given a name for the species) whose ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=291 Cha Sa-soon, a 69-year-old woman in Seoul, South Korea, passed the written portion of the South Korean driver's license test on her 960th try. The behind-the-wheel portion only took her 10 tries, and while that's still pretty terrible, it makes her look like Jeff Gordon in comparison to 960 tries. ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=302 Pirate Radio is about several things, but swashbuckling is unfortunately not one of them. It's about Radio Rock, a rock n' roll radio station illegally broadcasting to the United Kingdom out of the North Sea in the 1960s. It's about the men (and woman, but a lesbian, so it's ok) ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=269 Gamer takes place "some years" from now according to the opening caption, which seems lazy, although given the subject matter, I'm sure it's meant to be ambiguous and alarming. A man named Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has invented a self-replicating nanite which colonize in your brain and give someone ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=265 As the film opens, U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are on a ferry headed to Shutter Island to invesitage the disappearance of a patient from the AshcliffeHospital for the Criminally Insane. A storm is on the way and the sky is grey and ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=262 2012 is about the titular year and oh what a year it is. There's a longstanding belief that the world will end in December of that year, as that's the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar. NASA has compared the 2012 hysteria to the Y2K hysteria of the late ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=257 Despite the mixed reviews, I went into Surrogates with high hopes given that it featured three things I love: robots, Bruce Willis, and comic books. The film was adapted from a comic book and stars Bruce Willis as FBI Agent Tom Greer in a world where most of humanity lives ... http://dylanduarte.com/?p=254