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For Dads: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter DVD review

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Image courtesy of 20th Century Fox Arriving in stores on DVD, Blu-Ray and Blue-Ray 3D is Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter.  Obviously from the title you can tell what this movie is about.  Imagine a world with Vampires and the only person who can stop them is the 16th president of the United States of America.  Obviously there is a lot more story to it than this, but the basic jist is that good Old Abe was probably packing a small axe in his famous black hat.  Following the life of the president from his childhood all the way through to his assassination, I am fairly certain that you wont mistake this movie from the one being made by Steven Speilberg.  With that said, I doubt Spielberg’s Licoln will be spinning an axe around chopping vampires in half.  So in my mind, it’s a give and take. Honestly, there were two reason why I wanted to see this movie: 1) The director Timur Bekmambetov.  Mr. Bekmambetov is a master of action movie, directing one of the more innotive … [Read more...]

Dancing Hotdogs 2011 Holiday Guide

Holiday Glowberry bear

With Christmas almost upon us, the time to buy gifts is limited.  That is why gift guides are so important. While there are so many holiday guides out there but ONLY ONE Dancing Hotdogs guide.  What is special about our guide is these items are really in our house, we are gifting or on our list to Santa.   The household is made up of 11 month old son, 3 year old son, 29 year old parents and two pups but we tried to include a little bit of everything for you and your holiday shopping list. Disclosure: We received some items from companies as samples and they are noted with a *** but this entire guide is our unbiased recommendation to you. Toddlers: BrainyBaby’s Glowberry Bears ($24.99) we love these bears because they are huggable night lights. Perfect for 2 years and up.***   Sesame Street’s Let’s Rock Elmo ($69.99) our favorite little monster rocking out with a tambourine and drum set! Perfect for 18 months and up.***   LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer … [Read more...]

X-Men First Class Movie Review

xmen first class movie poster

By Eddy As one of the founding fathers of this latest trend of comic book movies, the X-men franchise holds an important place in Comic book movie history.  Also in that historic sense, the franchise exemplifies the best and worst of the genre.  With the first two films we saw the potential of what a comic book movie can be…something more akin to a real dramatic film rather than a high budget B-movie.  On the other side with the third movie (as well as the spin off for Wolverine) we saw, what money, expectation and no respect to the source material can do. So when the news that a pre-equal was being made about the origins of the X-men I, like many in the comic book nerd nation, was naturally skeptical. Yet with that said, I am happy to note that this latest iteration, X-Men First Class, directed by Mathew Vaughn (director of Kick Ass and the non comic book but closely related Stardust, meaning that he at least has some sense of the fantastical world of comic books and the … [Read more...]