The Island

Posted to Science Fiction on November 30th, 2006 by Chad Everett

Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) starts his day off like every other day – get up, get dressed, find out that he’s eating too much of this or that and that he can’t get bacon and has to eat something that he doesn’t want. Then he has to find out that he can’t find the answers to his questions, which no one else seems to have. They just seem to be fine with going through their lives, why is it that he is different? And he has these dreams about boats and things that come into his head.

The world that Lincoln lives in is self-contained. It has to be, since the outside world is contaminated. Every once in a while, a survivor is pulled in from the outside, and they have to help to train them to do even the most basic of tasks. Yet still, even years later, these people keep coming in. Where are all these survivors coming from? How do they continue to survive, without being overcome by the contamination? Why does no one know? Why does no one care?

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Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh

Posted to Horror on August 7th, 2006 by Chad Everett

This followup to the 1992 movie isn’t that bad. Tony Todd returns as the excellent Candyman, and we learn more about his history.

Sure, we already knew that if you look in a mirror and call his name five times, you’ll soon be visited by him, and he’ll be only too happy to split you from groin to gullet – not a pleasant experience.

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