When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams.

Pixar really never disappoints, after seeing the trailer for this movie I really wanted to see a bunch of funny colorful birds. Pixar really did an amazing job with the actor line up in this movie, the music was amazing and as it turns out Will.I.Am is one of the characters and you can’t help but love the music. Its a simple story yet very funny, and George Lopez is also one of the birds, a great ensemble of performers in this animation. I thought that the MoC wouldn’t cut a cartoon, or they would leave this alone, its birds, but I was wrong and it got cut at the most annoying moments but its still a movie to enjoy.

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As America and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary heroes must form an uneasy alliance. These studies in opposites shadow and light must overcome their distrust of each other to battle evil and injustice.

Sputnik silently circles in the skies above the fabled cities of the United States as danger lurks in the Earth’s darkest corners.

In Gotham, the shadowy vigilante known as the Batman haunts Gotham’s streets . . . and the police are just as afraid of this Dark Knight as the city’s criminals are.

In Metropolis, the notorious Lex Luthor is leveraging international tensions to build LuthorCorp into a military-industrial empire, competing against his business rival Wayne Industries, which is run by Gotham’s enigmatic millionaire, Bruce Wayne. Luthor’s activities have raised the interest of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, who is beginning to realize that Luthor may stop at nothing to achieve success.

At the same time, Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen are investigating the rumored crash of a flying saucer. Clark is desperate to know if there may be other lost interplanetary visitors on Earth secretly living among them visitors like himself.

When Batman’s and Superman’s paths cross, their lives change, and history will never be the same.

This is one of the books that I was saving, anything to do with Batman & Superman is something to look forward to. I remember not reading some comics to I can watch the movie then go back to the comics so the movie wouldn’t be ruined if I knew too much. This starts off with Batman and Superman in the 1950s/60s with tension high between the United States & USSR, and it has a warm feeling to it. Technology and life are a different level but you have a familiarity with the characters, they mention the characters as if you are just getting to know them. It picks up pace and I do enjoy the contrast and back & forth between Batman and Superman but I kept reading with higher expectations, with something bigger. With so many stories to Batman and Superman you always keep expecting to learn something you about them and to overcome impossible odds but in this case the story was fun but didn’t give me what I wanted at the end, its an enjoyable book but it could have been better.

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A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Liam Neeson is one of those great actors who are great at these roles. He really defines quietly deadly, one point he is talking calmly and at another he is putting a man’s head through a wall. I love these types of movies and I was expecting something good after taken but in this movie there was a lot of action and towards the end there is an unexpected twist which made it even better. Liam Neeson does not disappointed, now I can’t wait for Taken 2.

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The world’s greatest swordsman abandons his warrior clan to start a new life in the American Badlands in THE WARRIOR’S WAY, a visually dazzling modern martial arts adventure with stunningly choreographed fight sequences and gravity-defying stunts.

Ninjas and Cowboys in the same movie will always be an entertaining movie, don’t expect this movie to win any awards but it does entertain. A ninja who leaves his clan and moves to America to protect a baby his clan have sworn to kill, and lucky for the baby that he is the best assasin as protection. I love the martial mix of the movie and the ninjas flying everywhere, and then there is the bad cowboy ransacking the town, turning the end of it into one huge fight between ninjas and cowboys.

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I am one of those people that tend to talk and drive a lot, and I really hate in car bluetooth systems because they interrupt the music when it rings and that drives me nuts. So I have turned back to bluetooth headphones, I tried a few different ones over the years, the Jabra BT250 was my favorite back in the day, but looks like aliens attached something to the back of your ear. I didn’t car because it was comfortable, people could hear me, and it was loud enough but over the years I couldn’t find out that fit that worked just as well and they stopped making them. The jawbone was pretty good but it just didn’t fit my ear very well. Then Bose came out their own bluetooth headset, at long last they have adapted their amazing sound technology to a bluetooth headset. The moment I saw it available forsale I purchased and I never regreted it, now I feel weird talking on the phone and holding the phone. Even when I’m at home walking around, my phone is in my pocket and I’m using the headset.

Pros:

• Crip Sound, very clear and loud(The other end can’t tell its a head set). You can’t hear the background
• It only weighs 136 grams which is very light, and you don’t feel it while you are wearing it
• It fits comfortably in your ear, same as the tri-port head phones
• Works with bluetooth enabled devices to stream music to them, so you can listen to your iTunes
• Very simple to use and intuitive, not a confusing headset
• Battery lasts for about two days with heavy usage which is pretty good
• Charges via micro-usb so its the same as the Blackberry and Android, so you don’t need a spare charger

Cons:

• A bit on the expensive side but worth it since quality built headset from Bose
• You can only use it on your right ear

Overall this is an excellent bluetooth headset, Bose have really done their homework when putting this product together, they knew what people wanted. If you don’t mind it being only a right side bluetooth then I highly recommend it to anyone, it 4.5 out 5 because of price but its an excellent product and does exactly what it promises.

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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan s most infamous yakuza boss and the threat of death for him and his family Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.

In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells a riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter who made rookie mistakes like getting in a martial-arts…

I was looking for a book that would give me real insight into Japanese culture, I have a lot of books and some of them very entertaining, and some of them boring. But no book has taught me so much about Japanese culture and describe to me the inner working of the corporate, criminal, and the political intricacies of Japan. Tokyo Vice for a short book had so many layers to it had at the edge of my seat at times, and perplexed in others. He tackles cultural adaptation to an expose of crime, corruption, and social decadence, to personal moral and ethical dilemmas, Adelstein’s story covers ten years of his life; ten years that made his life, in a world few people can ever hope to see or understand. To keep it simple this book was an amazing read and worth it for anyone interested in life in Japan.

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A married man is granted the opportunity to have an affair by his wife. Joined in the fun by his best pal, things get a little out of control when both wives start engaging in extramarital activities as well.

This is a comedy that had its really funny moments, sometimes Owen Wilson gets on my nerves but in this movie he was hilarious. Jason Sudeikis was even funnier, there were key moments that I almost chocked on the popcorn laughing so hard. These guys go on the most ridiculous adventure when their wives give them hall passes to do anything or anyone they want in a one week period and they go through hell.

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Synopsis
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Its been a while since I’ve read a book that is so well written that I believe that its going on around or I’m supposed to see it on TV. A Zombie pandemic has affected the world and Max Brooks took it upon himself to tell the story of every person across the world in full detail, and damn this book seems so real. Its got a lot of humor and horror thrown into the mix that you believe the person telling the story, Max acts as the interviewer asking people questions and you hear there stories from China, Japan, India, Brazil, USA, South Africa, Antartica, Russia, and so many other places across the globe each person is his own character and goes into full detail of what was going on with them and how they survived the throng of zombies and sometimes in the millions. Max Brooks has gone into so much detail of each of the cultures or people that he is describing when speaking in the interview that you honestly believe it to be real, that there is a zombie war across the globe, there are times that I wouldn’t want to put down the book, and I wake up the next morning switching on CNN expecting to see news reels about Zombie and how they are combating them, the books is this good and that entertaining that anyone would love it.

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Plot Summary: Two brothers lose their mother to an incurable disease. With the power of “alchemy”, they use taboo knowledge to resurrect her. The process fails, and as a toll for using this type of alchemy, the older brother, Edward Elric loses his left leg while the younger brother, Alphonse Elric loses his entire body. To save his brother, Edward sacrifices his right arm and is able to affix his brother’s soul to a suit of armor. With the help of a family friend, Edward receives metal limbs – “automail” – to replace his lost ones. With that, Edward vows to search for the Philosopher’s Stone to return the brothers to their original bodies, even if it means becoming a “State Alchemist”, one who uses his/her alchemy for the military.

Now this is an anime to be remembered, the first part of Full Metal Alchemist ended on a high note, and then there was the movie. I didn’t know there was a full series that was going to be released, and it was even better then the first part. Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood picked up where the first one ended and there were some filler episodes to help people remember what was going on. Then it just went into a crazy plot where they are fighting the homunculi while trying to find the cure for their bodies, they start uncovering a deep story and plot related to the character called “Father”. Even with all the odds against them they team up with people they have met over their lives to try to fight this insane foe. I can’t describe how good the story was but if you have any inkling for anime this should be at the top of the list.

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The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.

Sam Flynn is the young man with a huge company to inherit which he wants nothing to do with, except to badger them and embarrass them whenever possible. Only to find a contact from his father’s old office, but his father has been missing for over a decade. The story picks up some time after Jeff Bridges disappears into The Grid and being stuck there for a very long time, and his son stumbles into his digital world. This is one hell of a science fiction movie that I loved from beginning to end, I kept wanting more and the story was great, and the graphics of their world and how everything was related together through the lighting patterns. Jeff Bridges does an amazing job in this movie, and brought back memories when I remember see it on VHS in the 80s for the first time. If you are scifi fan then this movie is a must.

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