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I am an author and journalist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My work has appeared in numerous online and print publications including Examiner.com, The Oak Bend Review, Art City, The Dangling Modifier, Digital-Photography-School.com, CC&D

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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Watchmen: 9 of 17

Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder, opened to much acclaim. The film has massive appeal to comic and graphic novel fans, as it is one of the most anticipated adaptations ever. Additionally, the film has drawn crowds from outside of the comic realm, attracting a healthy mix of sci-fi and action lovers, plus the techie crowd wh...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Quarantine: 3 of 4

Cross Cloverfield with Dawn of the Dead and you've got Quarantine of. Directed by John Erick Dowdle, 2008's Quarantine follows a chipper news reporter assigned to shadow group of LA firefighters for a human interest story. The soft-news piece quickly turns to a breaking story as the firefighters are called to a disturbance a...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Taken: 7 of 8

Repeatedly compared to the popular Bourne franchise, Taken transplants a skilled special agent into a personal fight, pulling out all the stops to succeed. Liam Neeson plays Bryan Mills, former spy trying to mend relationships with his estranged ex-wife and distant daughter. The movie opens a bit slow, with some moderately c...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Sunshine Cleaning: 4 of 4

Sunshine Cleaning was nominated at the Sundance Film Festival, and opened to much anticipation among indie film lovers. The premise is simple: two sisters go into business as crime scene cleaners to make extra money and sort out their lives. Amid this simple plot, the characters evolve as interesting, idiosyncratic figures w...