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Just couldn't waste the opportunity... (thanks, jj!)
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The Phantom (1996)
Lightweight comic book adventure based on Lee Falk's classic strip from the 1930s. The natives tell a tale of a mysterious being, the "Ghost Who Walks," who, along with his wolf, haunts the jungles, battling evil at every turn. It's a 400-year tradition, really. Kit Walker (Zane) should know, for he is the 21st in the father-son line to wear the mantle of the Phantom. So when an expedition of troublemakers stumble into his territory and steal a mysterious bejewelled skull, he is roused to follow the miscreants back to their lair. This happens to be 1938 New York, where ruthless business tycoon Xander Drax (Williams) is preparing to complete his collection of the Skulls of Touganda--a collection which will bestow upon its owner untold powers. Drax's organization, however, is shadowed by Diana Palmer (Swanson), the fiesty daughter of a city newspaper editor wise to the businessman's wiles. Featuring lush sets and terrific production design, "The Phantom" straddles the line between Batman and Indiana Jones, and delivers old-fashioned, if somewhat silly, adventure action with almost innocuous camp.
The Phantom (1996)
Lightweight comic book adventure based on Lee Falk's classic strip from the 1930s. The natives tell a tale of a mysterious being, the "Ghost Who Walks," who, along with his wolf, haunts the jungles, battling evil at every turn. It's a 400-year tradition, really. Kit Walker (Zane) should know, for he is the 21st in the father-son line to wear the mantle of the Phantom. So when an expedition of troublemakers stumble into his territory and steal a mysterious bejewelled skull, he is roused to follow the miscreants back to their lair. This happens to be 1938 New York, where ruthless business tycoon Xander Drax (Williams) is preparing to complete his collection of the Skulls of Touganda--a collection which will bestow upon its owner untold powers. Drax's organization, however, is shadowed by Diana Palmer (Swanson), the fiesty daughter of a city newspaper editor wise to the businessman's wiles. Featuring lush sets and terrific production design, "The Phantom" straddles the line between Batman and Indiana Jones, and delivers old-fashioned, if somewhat silly, adventure action with almost innocuous camp.
7/13 entry #1
The Y2K BugA Computer Glitch That Scared the World
While many were ready to party "like it was 1999," many others predicted catastrophe at the end of the year from a small assumption made long ago when computers were first being programmed.
Due to all the work they did updating systems very little glitches actually happened.
The Y2K BugA Computer Glitch That Scared the World
While many were ready to party "like it was 1999," many others predicted catastrophe at the end of the year from a small assumption made long ago when computers were first being programmed.
Due to all the work they did updating systems very little glitches actually happened.
7/13 #3
The Shadow (1994)
In the bandit lands on the border of China and Tibet, a ruthless opium lord (Baldwin) is taken to task by a holy mystic, gifted with powers to "cloud men's minds," and charged with making up for his karmic regression. Hence, he moves to New York City, enters society as Lamont Cranston, and fights evil under the guise of "The Shadow." His only weakness is visiting the Cobalt Club to ogle the curvacious, if eccentric, Margo Lane (Miller), the telepathic socialite daughter of a brilliant, if absent-minded, scientist (McKellen). So far, so good--until a mysterious sarcophagus arrives, bearing Shiwan Khan (Lone), a descendant of Genghis Khan, who shares his ancestors' genetic trait of wanting to conquer the world as well as Cranston's training at the hands of the Tibetan mystic. Khan's ingenious, menacing, megalomaniacal plan to bring the world to its knees: build the world's first atomic bomb (a theory that is readily understood by all parties involved) and hold the city hostage. Preposterous as the plot may be, director Mulcahy invests more atmosphere than he ever did in his "Highlander" films, presenting a stylish, shallow comic book world in which superhero powers--while not exactly the norm--do not seem remotely out of place. Fun, mindless, crime-fighting fluff based on the serial novels of Walter Gibson.
The Shadow (1994)
In the bandit lands on the border of China and Tibet, a ruthless opium lord (Baldwin) is taken to task by a holy mystic, gifted with powers to "cloud men's minds," and charged with making up for his karmic regression. Hence, he moves to New York City, enters society as Lamont Cranston, and fights evil under the guise of "The Shadow." His only weakness is visiting the Cobalt Club to ogle the curvacious, if eccentric, Margo Lane (Miller), the telepathic socialite daughter of a brilliant, if absent-minded, scientist (McKellen). So far, so good--until a mysterious sarcophagus arrives, bearing Shiwan Khan (Lone), a descendant of Genghis Khan, who shares his ancestors' genetic trait of wanting to conquer the world as well as Cranston's training at the hands of the Tibetan mystic. Khan's ingenious, menacing, megalomaniacal plan to bring the world to its knees: build the world's first atomic bomb (a theory that is readily understood by all parties involved) and hold the city hostage. Preposterous as the plot may be, director Mulcahy invests more atmosphere than he ever did in his "Highlander" films, presenting a stylish, shallow comic book world in which superhero powers--while not exactly the norm--do not seem remotely out of place. Fun, mindless, crime-fighting fluff based on the serial novels of Walter Gibson.
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Futurama is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company.In the United States, the series aired on Fox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003, before ceasing production.
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Futurama is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company.In the United States, the series aired on Fox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003, before ceasing production.
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Men in Black is a 1997 American comic science fiction action spy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
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Men in Black is a 1997 American comic science fiction action spy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
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Loved this one....not crazy about the sequels.
The Matrix is a 1999 American-Australian science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
#3
Loved this one....not crazy about the sequels.
The Matrix is a 1999 American-Australian science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
7/13 ENTRY #2
The guy that invented the world wide web 1990 was working in a communication system for a company he worked for (CERN) he accidentally figured out this could be used to communicate with the world! Wow!.
The guy that invented the world wide web 1990 was working in a communication system for a company he worked for (CERN) he accidentally figured out this could be used to communicate with the world! Wow!.
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Tiny Toon Adventures (commonly known as Tiny Toons) is an American animated comedy television series that was broadcasting from September 14, 1990 through May 28, 1995 as the first collaborative effort of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation after being conceived in the late 1980s by Tom Ruegger.[3] The show follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the Looney Tunes series.
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Tiny Toon Adventures (commonly known as Tiny Toons) is an American animated comedy television series that was broadcasting from September 14, 1990 through May 28, 1995 as the first collaborative effort of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation after being conceived in the late 1980s by Tom Ruegger.[3] The show follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the Looney Tunes series.
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