Before we get started, a definition:

Editorial
an article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors.

This is an Editorial site, not a hard cold facts news site. This said, the writings here are the thoughts of people who are from many divergent points of view. Sometimes we even have two opinions on the same subject that are completely different from each other. Our writers can be somewhat emotional on some subjects.

Because of this, we must emphasize the fact that the opinions of our editors do not, and will not in any way constitute an “official” Ishtar stance on any issue, controversial or not. While we welcome divergent opinions, we also feel that any expression of such opinions and subsequent agreements or disagreements should be made in a civilized, intellectual manner.

Otherwise, we’ll just censor it and make it go away. Yep. Because we are not here to let people shriek at us. You want to have a hissy somewhere in response to something written on the net, start your own blog. Don’t bring your drama here.

To put it in more elementary terms - no name-calling, no posts in ALL CAPS, no swearing just for the sake of swearing, no blatant disregard for the laws of reality. Disagree without being disagreeable, or if not possible, disagree without being intolerable. Exceptions may be made if you can express your negativity in the form of a limerick during the months of March - May.

Thanks for Reading,

The Ishtar Team

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is still out in theaters at the moment (Jul7 3rd), so go see it if you have the time.

Yes, that’s a thumbs-up.  But wait, there’s more!

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Last Tuesday GU 52 hit the Test Servers, and the devs weren’t kidding when they said there’d be more content in the GUs when they came less often.  80 new quests in Kunark, group and raid versions of Kurn’s Tower, the Emperor’s Athenaeum, GPU shadows, Research Assistants, ranged weapons and hex dolls revamped, new tradeskill recipes… tons of new things to do anywhere you look.

And a few are only there if you look at just the right time.

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After several long months of contemplation (read: ranting at anyone who’ll sit still for two minutes) I have come to the conclusion that SOE does not want anyone to simply ‘like’ EverQuest II.  It is too palid a response, makes it too easy for players to take or leave the game at will or whim.  They want passion from their customers.  They want dedication.  Love it or hate it, they want us to feel something.

Either that, or the whole dev team has gone insane, take your pick.
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I did not want to see this movie.  I shunned the third X-men movie because I had seen just enough bad to make me flinch - I didn’t have to see the whole movie.  But my sister made sad faces and was going to go by herself - so I let her buy my way in.  (I won’t pay to see any X-men movies anymore.  The second one was bad enough.)

And I was entertained throughout most of the movie.  Yet… I am not sorry I am not the one who paid for the ticket.  Because it was like watching a train wreck.

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In my entire 30+ years of life, I have never been accosted by a book. Nor has a book ever threatened my life, my livelihood, my family, or my well-being. Even the most questionable passages of the printed word (hello, AFF.net, I’m looking at you) have failed to cause any lasting mental damage. At worst, I’ve had to stare, perplexed, as I tried to unravel someone else’s totally incomprehensible prose. In short: Amazon.com does not need to protect me from the GLBT fiction that may be lurking on its site. I’m fine on my own, thanks, looking at reviews, reading excerpts and making my own decisions based on whatever factors move me at the time.
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Coraline is a stop action 3D film based on the novella by Neil Gaiman. It is a classically styled fairytale - a horror story for children. I haven’t seen stop motion photography in years (Nightmare before Christmas ) and this is some of the best there is. Read the rest of this entry »

Push would have to be called Sci-Fi, Action, maybe thriller, possibly spy thriller. It carries off most of those pretty well. I was very entertained and I liked the movie and characters quite a bit - but the very end left me utterly flat and unenthused. Read the rest of this entry »

Re-Cycle is a Cantonese fantasy-horror movie that was released in 2006.  Why am I reviewing it?  Because I liked it a lot.

I’m a fan of  asian horror and have watched a lot of it just recently, but Re-Cycle was the first one to go straight off the horror rails and into something completely different that made me cryyy!

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The Uninvited was released in January 2009. Horror genre. I liked it…But it was predictable.  But no, its not!  Oops, i was totally wrong!

Pretty well done at first, about half way through things start falling apart. Its supposed to be a ghost story, right? Some of the scenes just don’t make sense.

Except they do. Its just not what you expected to see at all.

Warning! This has a lot of creepy scenes and it is not for kids. I really wouldn’t let anyone under fifteen watch it in general - some kids are more sensitive than others, and some kids can take a lot of scary things - you’d have to watch it yourself to decide. Sex, violence, confusing betrayal and suicide are all featured in this movie and not always the way you think they are appearing. This movie also takes a turn where you think it’s a much more predictable and badly written piece of crap.

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The Unborn is one of those movies that I think needed to either be shorter or longer. A great use of some Jewish Mysticism - not a lot of movies take those myths to the screen. With Gary Oldman in it, I really expected to be more impressed. Its good enough but what the hell was the great Oldman doing in this film?

Not much.

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