Film Review: Ghostly, Entertaining “Haunted Mansion”

Film Review: Ghostly, Entertaining “Haunted Mansion”

I visited Disneyland dozens of times while growing up in Southern California. It was the #1 destination for our visitors, school trips, and even my high school marching band. While the park has grown and evolved over the years, two rides at the amusement park have...

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Film Review: Violent, Amusing “Night of the Assassin”

Film Review: Violent, Amusing “Night of the Assassin”

There's a certain vibe that seems to be the foundation of most all Asian martial arts movies. They're set in an unspecified historic era where there are no guns and no electricity and it's generally a sullen martial arts hero stepping up to protect an innocent peasant...

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Ridiculous Luxury with the 2023 BMW XM SUV

Ridiculous Luxury with the 2023 BMW XM SUV

Car designers are always seeking to find a balance between features and cost. Sometimes the upgrades can be slipped into the Options category, allowing drivers the chance to upgrade on a per-vehicle basis, and other times they can become a new, higher trim level. In...

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Film Review: Epic and Complex Biopic “Oppenheimer”

Film Review: Epic and Complex Biopic “Oppenheimer”

The history of humanity has been all too intertwined with us inventing bigger and more efficient ways to kill each other. Spears beget bows and arrows, gunpowder begets cannonballs and artillery, along with rifles and pistols. Knives became swords, and little bombs...

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Affordable and Fun, The 2024 Chevrolet Trax ACTIV

Affordable and Fun, The 2024 Chevrolet Trax ACTIV

One of the aspects of being a car writer that most people don't realize is that we are loaned so many high-end luxury vehicles or tricked-out vehicles with every possible option that it's easy for us to get out of touch with the world of lower-cost and entry-level...

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Swanky Drive Time with the 2023 Range Rover Sport SE

Swanky Drive Time with the 2023 Range Rover Sport SE

Seems like only a few days ago I was driving the 2023 Land Rover Defender 130 so it was really interesting to get behind the wheel of the 2023 Range Rover Sport SE: In many ways, they're the same vehicle. In fact, Range Rover is a brand of Land Rover, which itself is...

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Hands On With The New “MoviePass” Theater Subscription

Hands On With The New “MoviePass” Theater Subscription

I subscribed to MoviePass when it first showed up and found it a fantastic deal. For $35 I could literally go see up to 30 movies each month. Catch one each week and it was paying for itself! I wrote about it back in 2014 in glowing terms: MoviePass, A Film Lover's...

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Game Review: It’s Mano-a-Mano with “Kapow!”

Game Review: It’s Mano-a-Mano with “Kapow!”

Let's face it, most competitive games come down to combat in one form or another. Whether it's troops moving into your territory, aliens vying for prime planets, or animals battling over the best den in the meadow, there's something fundamentally satisfying about...

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Big and Comfy, the 2023 INFINITI QX80 Sensory

Big and Comfy, the 2023 INFINITI QX80 Sensory

I was driving the Infiniti QX60 mid-size Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) only a few weeks ago, so getting into the bigger QX80 was a bit of a deja vu moment. Same car, same design, just the supersized version of the SUV. But it turns out that the 2023 Infiniti QX80 has...

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Rocky Mountain Driving Experience 2023: Day Two

Rocky Mountain Driving Experience 2023: Day Two

After spending two eventful days in the Rocky Mountains as part of the Rocky Mountain Driving Experience (RMDE), I had hundreds of photos from the event. I drove about twenty vehicles along some of the most beautiful roads in the world. Day one's writeup is already...

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