You won't be able to pick up any of those in store bargains if you do your shopping online, right? Wrong. The popular jeweller Ernest Jones is giving shoppers the chance to make discount purchases this holiday season to help those shopping online save a little cash. The way that they are doing this is by releasing voucher codes which you simply input into an area as you enter your purchasing details.Ernest Jones is a highly reputable national...more
When you don't use chlorine the right way, the bacteria in your pool can cause a lot of problems. A sanitary pool is a pleasant pool, so learn about how chlorine works - and figure out the kind that's right for you - to keep it as safe as possible.Keeping bacteria at bay isn't difficult, but you have to be vigilant about it. The key to controlling the bacteria in your pool is proper sanitation. Sanitising your pool water by using chlorine is the...more
No other film in recent memory has a duller and more washed out color palette than Away We Go. Why is this film so atrocious to look at? I've had more soothing adventures counting dust bunnies in my grandpa's attic for an hour. This road movie which tours us through Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida and Canada stars John Krasinski (TV's "The Office") and Maya Rudolph (former "SNL" alum) as a couple concerned for their future when they learn a baby is on the way. This film becomes yet another example that the enormously appealing Krasinski just cannot get a big screen break. Basically Burt and Verona (Krasinki and Rudolph) travel to visit friends and family so they can find a suitable place to raise their child. What we get is a series of episodes, a majority of them place Burt and Verona reacquainting with depressives, loud-mouths and obnoxious people from their past before figuring that they can't move there. Hold on. Couldn't they have foreseen all this without making the trip? The most loathsome episode is a visit with Maggie Gyllenhaal an obnoxious hippie-collegiate (oxymoron?) baby momma who believes strollers keeps a mom's love at a distance from her young. She eventually shrieks...more
"Zombieland" sporadically has a gleeful sick energy and certainly contains some clever bloody kills with its arsenal. It is also proud enough to not throw the action inside a shopping mall (it has become a zombie movie clich, and shrewdly has cast Woody Harrelson as a half-redneck, half-chummy man of the land paired with Jesse Eisenberg's nerd...more
How badass are Denzel Washington and John Travolta... in other movies? I wouldn't exactly call them badass in The "Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," now available on DVD, in which they are sticking to conventions that allow them to phone it in, the static script making it doubly easy. These two have demonstrated blockbuster movie muscle so many times before...more
The visual spectacle of Avatar is so amazing that it almost becomes an overload of cool. Every shot in James Cameron's blue world extravaganza is magnificent from left to right, packing it in, never giving into visual short-shrift. His storytelling efforts are also ambitious and extensive. But when it comes to storytelling, they are indeed efforts. The screenplay duties by Cameron on his "Titanic" were much bolder and streamlined than they are here even if the Billy Zane character was a two-dimensional louse in a tux. In "Avatar" two villains exist, Stephen Lang merciless honcho Colonel Miles Quaritch and Giovanni Ribisi's wormy mission director Parker Selfridge who is a nod to Paul Reiser's character in Cameron's "Aliens." Besides being a far too single-minded and intractable, these are good villains.This is the year 2154 (the human stuff, the technology feels like it), and earthlings have stationed in Pandora where mineral unobtainium must be extracted to save Earth's energy crisis. The hero of the picture is Sam Worthington as paraplegic Jake Sully, a still enlisted Marine, who enters the Avatar program headed by Sigourney Weaver. In a sensory deprivation tank, human...more
Up in the Air is another winner for George Clooney, the consummate movie star who brings his usual top-flight brand of intelligence to every project he chooses. Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a downsizing specialist that corporations hire to conduct...more
Richie Valens, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Darin, Ray Charles and Johnny Cash are just some of the famous musicians that have gotten major Hollywood biopics made about them over the years. While there are many more musicians that deserve their own movie,...more
If you are injured and are considering filing a personal injury claim, you need to consider several factors that go into filing one. Apart from the high expenses that you incur for filing claims you also incur high medical expenses. However, there...more
Attracting, retaining, and improving a quality workforce is an aim that is held by most modern businesses, in the recognition that even with the best material resources and a great strategy, no Endeavour can truly excel without the work of quality...more
T-shirts have been around for ages, but they have really come into their own these past few years. There are even people now making five and six figure incomes, wearing t-shirts bearing advertisements in public places. The t-shirt is an actively...more
Winter brings with it a whole new set of fun ideas, and you can't take snow out of them. Ice skating, skiing and hockey are all there, but so is snow-tubing. As the festive season in December gears up, Chesapeake Energy offers snow-tubing at the AT&T...more