The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second installment in author Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy.  It continues following the story of odd computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and reporter Mikael Blomkvist.  This time Salander is the story and she will have to face her past.

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This is a special post.  You could say it’s an ad but while we would make some money if you bought anything through our link, this is just an awesome sale that I’ve already bought a ton of stuff through.

As you may or may not know Things From Another World or TFAW is the go to place on the internet for comics and comic related items.   They have so much awesome stuff like toys, shirts, graphic novels, and just about anything you can imagine relating to comics and related things and their having a huge sale this month.

It’s already been going on but I didn’t want to promote it till it got really good.  Right now everything in the sale is 50% off (currently 2074 different products!).  Starting Monday February 15th it jumps to 60%.  Then whatever is left from February 22nd-28th is a full 70% off.  So do us and yourself a favor and check it out.

The real title of this movie is  Män som hatar kvinnor which translates to Men Who Hate Women but it is known in the US as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  It’s based on the book of the same name that I reviewed yesterday.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a book by the late Swedish writer Steig Larsson.  It is the story of a financial journalist who winds up in a career freefall and is offered the job of looking into the case of a missing girl that is over 30 years old, during the course of the case he meets a strange but alluring girl and the two wind up partnering to solve what is more than either originally expected.

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Human Target is a new show on Fox based off of the DC comic of the same name.  In the comic version Christopher Chance is a private detective that impersonates his clients to protect them.  In the TV version he merely poses as someone close to them (like an interpreter for example).  He does this to draw threats to the client out in the open where he can more effectively deal with them.

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ABC has always done some interesting marketing, and usually if there’s a product to be made from a show they’ll do it, the results however are usually mixed.  Take for example Bad Twinby the fictional Gary Troup, a novel meant to be a tie in to Lost (the author was supposedly killed in the crash of flight 815 and in one episode Sawyer can be seen reading the manuscript for the book).  That novel crashed and burned as even the producers of the show disowned it.  So although it made sense for them to release a book written by a character on a show about a writer, I approached this with trepidation.

I am in fact weary of any sort of television tie-in novel.  I think they’re pretty horrible things that mostly have nothing to do with or contain the feel of the source material.  They’re just writers who bought some licensing rights and who are borrowing names and characters from an already established universe.  They usually suck.

Heat Wave actually has a really interesting premise.  It is by the main character of the show “Castle” and is actually a book in the show.  It’s the book he writes in the show.  So the plot is centered around a loose fictional version of all the characters in the show.  The lead in the book is Nikki Heat, who is representing Stana Katic’s character on the show, and she’s being followed around by a journalist called Jameson Rook, representing Nathan Fillion’s character.  It’s all sort of meta and if you watch the show it makes more sense (if you don’t watch the show, why not?).

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You Are So Undead To Me is a young adult book by Stacey Jay about Zombie Settler Megan Berry in the small town of Carol, Arkansas.  A Zombie Settler is kind of like a psychiatrist for the dead mixed with a vampire slayer.  Basically it’s a trait passed down through the family in which the Settler’s have some kind of draw so that if someone dies with something unresolved they go to that person and it’s the Settlers job to take their statement and send them back to their grave.  But there are also times when a practicer of black magic will raise a corpse.  These ones are not so friendly and the Settlers must get rid of them in different manners.

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Everything Else

Alright here it is at last.  The final part of our inaugural Holiday Must Have list.  We hope you find some great gift ideas somewhere in this massive pile of stuff and that you make those you care for smile when they open the awesome gift you bought them.  If you haven’t already check out the previous parts: Movies, TV, & Music.  Remember to click the links to go to the page of that product. And now without further adieu, the finale:

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Hell is other people

Since this is our first script review let me explain how this works.  Basically thanks to the magic of the internet, occasionally I’ll come across the script to a movie that either I haven’t seen for some reason, or is maybe a different version of a movie that was made (for example Kevin Smith’s “Superman”) or a really early draft that is pretty different from the finished project.  Scripts are fun to read so I figured when I do such a thing, I’ll pop on here and write up a review.  Oh also movies yet to be made are included in this category.  Obviously I can review nothing about the movie but the writing so that’s all these reviews are.  Basic reviews of the plot, characters, dialogue, everything on the written page. For legal reasons I will not post a link to the script unless given permission by the author. Remember you can use the “contact” tab to send us your own scripts.

This first review is of Richard Kelly’s new recently released film “The Box” based off the short story/Twilight Zone episode “Buttons, Buttons” by Richard Matheson.  The draft I read was dated 2006.  I have not seen the film version so I cannot speak to any differences there might be between this and the final product.

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ON IN AT is a 3 book collection released alongside Tegan & Sara’s new album Sainthood. Each of the books is totally different and covers a different topic. ON covers their North American tour in 2008, IN covers a 5 day period where T&S went to New Orleans and tried to write together for the first time every, and AT covers their 08-09 tour in Austrialia. The books are available right now only at shows and at MapleMusic. They’re costly, so are they worth the price?

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