Living With a Nerd

Sorry for the fake out, folks.  Things around here are still fairly busy, so Living With a Nerd will return to its near-daily updates after the start of the new year.  If you are interested in reading about the recent redesign of how our desks are set up, you can do so here. Thank you all for your patience, and happy new year!

If the long wait for Diablo III has got you down, put in some quality time with Torchlight.

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Both pictures taken on 12/19/09 at 3 PM here in Montgomery County, MD. We had about 7 more hours of solid snowfall after these pictures were taken; the car in the picture on the right was 100% buried by the time the storm passed.

We are taking some time off in preparation for the holidays here at Living With a Nerd.  Our posting is scheduled to resume on Friday, December 25th.  Thank you all for your patience, and have a great holiday season!

James Cameron’s long awaited sci fi epic Avatar has finally been released to the masses.  Does it live up to the hype?  Click through to find out.

Note: There are no plot spoilers within, as this review focuses primarily on Avatar from a technical standpoint rather than the film itself. 

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The fifth and final entry in our Week of Horror series is The Evil Dead, a horror film from 1981 that launched the careers of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Note: Minor spoilers ahead.  Some NSFW images inside

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The fourth entry in our Week of Horror series is The Shining, a classic 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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The third entry in our Week of Horror series is Zombie, a 1979 Italian film directed by the legendary Lucio Fulci.

Note:  This review covers the Anchor Bay 2002 release.  Some images inside NSFW.

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The second entry in our Week of Horror series is Slave of the Cannibal God, a 1978 Italian film starring none other than Ursula Andress.  (continue reading…)

Our first entry in our Week of Horror series is Suspiria, a classic 1977 film by legendary Italian film maker Dario Argento.

Note:  Some slightly NSFW images inside

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In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season, the next week on Living With a Nerd is going to be a week of horror!  Each day, we are going to review one of our five favourite horror movies.  They will be posted in order of release…I swear this wasn’t intentional, but the five films were released one year after another:  1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981. 

Stay tuned, it’s going to be a fun week!