Not Worth Your Time: You Don't Learn Anything from Knowing

The film Knowing, which begins with an incredibly intense, pulse-pounding first hour, unfortunately stumbles towards one of the most absurd, unintentionally hilarious and just bizarre conclusions among the most recent films I’ve seen.

The apocalyptic time capsule thriller somehow managed to reel me in early on from the trailer I saw in theaters as it tantalized with its disasters and numerology. Too bad it lost me about 55-minutes along.

Lost in a cloud of chaos searching for answers, Nicolas Cage (the main character of the movie – “the hero”) offers up the numerically mad manic energy though the end-of-the-world gravitas that Knowing brings might have been the bigger key at play.

The only highlight of the film was the overwhelming NYC subway train crash disaster scene of mayhem and death. Though, the Boston plane crash scene seemed more gruesome and real.



Sure, there's some unintentional comedy to be made, including, but not limited to, Cage whacking a tree with a baseball bat while screaming about whisper people.

Knowing is certainly NOT worth a look, and was a waste of my time. (I was lucky to watch it on watch-movies.net for FREE) The movie overall turned out to be disorganized, a downer with a seriously flawed plot and a message of utter hopelessness for the human race.

There are plenty more reasons not to like this train wreck of a Hollywood feature film.

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Worth Your Time: "Rock Out" on the Road

Have you always wanted to “rock out” on the road? Well you don’t need a tour bus anymore to do it. Rock Band Unplugged will be with any gamer at anytime as the game has come out-of-nowhere and will serve the Sony Play Station Portable device. The game is a part of the series of the wildly successful Rock Band games. It has an official release date of June 9th.

Rock Band Unplugged creates a full band experience in the palm of your hand by combining key game-play elements from both Rock Band and Rock Band 2, with familiar songs as well as new songs.

Unplugged is surprisingly planned as an exclusive for Sony's portable, and will feature 40 master recordings.

In addition, Rock Band Unplugged will launch many tracks exclusively for the PSP, here are some just to name a couple:

•3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
•Blink 182 - What’s My Age Again

Rock Band Unplugged will also be part of the new Rock Band PSP Entertainment Pack. It will include the first fully-featured in-game store for downloadable content on the PSP system -- a system that utilizes the PSP's Wi-Fi internet capabilities and allows you to use your existing PlayStation Network account to purchase songs.



So, how does Rock Band Unplugged work on the PSP? For a quick first look at the game, check out the trailer below.

Worth Your Time: This Site Makes Spring Cleaning Easier

It’s that time of year again to go through all of your junk and clean it out or at least organize it.

The website and company, Simplify 101 is here to help anyone who is looking to organize either their home or business to reduce the clutter and become a better organized area.

The website offers a variety of useful suggestions to help get rid of “junk” and paperwork that is making your life de-organized.

Simplify 101 offers free organizing tips through a monthly newsletter that is sent out via e-mail to anyone who signs up. The website also offers articles for site visitors to read as well, which includes more detailed tips and suggestions on how to become more organized from topics of scrapbooking to household chores like laundry.

Though the coolest thing of all is that Simplify 101 offers online workshop classes that will teach you one- on -one how to manage clutter and become a grounded organized person in life not just at home or at the office.

The site also offers a community blog where Aby (the founder of Simplify 101) blogs about being organized in a variety of ways and how to do it with a budget.

Another interesting thing that Simplify 101 offers is in-house appointments with experts from the company that will come to your own house or even office to help you organize anything that is of possible organization.

The site also offers a shopping page where you can purchase books and things to assist in the organization process.

Either way, this site is worth looking at for minutes or even hours.

Not Worth Your Time: Wingman Fails to Fly

There’s a new show on the FLN (Fine Living Network) channel called Wingman that premiered in February which airs Tuesdays at 9pm. Too bad it turns out to be a letdown among singles looking for dating advice via television.

Michael Somerville is a wingman to several men and women and tries to make their dating lives more successful in this reality based show; similar to Bravo’s dating show,The Millionaire Matchmaker but without the millionaires.

Two years ago, Somerville took over the Jake advice column for Glamour magazine, where he dishes out relationship tips to women. The success of the column led to reality show, Wingman which is Somerville’s first regular hosting gig on a series as he a regular on the Comedy Central channel.

On the reality show, Somerville serves as a likable jack-of-all-trades who works with bad daters on improving their dating habits. With the help of experts, he points out flaws and works on sharpening their social skills. Wingman was intentionally created with the 35-year-old in mind.

In each episode of the FLN series, the unique Somerville, will take a date-challenged man or woman under his "protective wing" and instruct them on the finer points of finding a prospective date.


With Somerville's guidance, the loveless will learn exactly what they need to do to increase their dating potential, while putting Somerville’s advice into practice and having a enjoyable time in the process.


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Worth Your Time: Sometimes It's Better to Buy Than Rent

At first I wasn't sure if the movie Twilight was worth watching since it was one of those fad movies that everyone was running to see; like the Harry Potter series. But I took the plunge and I’m glad I did.

The movie turned out to be just the opposite of what I thought it would be. Instead of scary vampires every where killing people and sucking their blood, the movie was actually a love story between two teens, Bella (played by Kristen Stewart) and Edward (played by Robert Pattinson)who are looking to discover more about themselves and life during high school in a small town.


Although the movie was pretty much a love story, there was also some suspense and action throughout, making you grip the closet thing nearby.

The movie is based on the novel series by Stephenie Meyer, with three additional novels that accompany Twilight that will ultimately end up in the theaters. Even though the novels are better since they are more descriptive, it's always good to watch the movie as well just to see it come alive on the big screen.



The next sequel to Twilight, is New Moon which is tentatively scheduled for release this November in theaters. I can’t wait to run with the others to go see it; I’ll admit it.



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Worth Your Time: Catch a Millionaire

Meeting a millionaire, capturing his heart and soul can be hard to find here in the United States, but Patti Stanger, a third generation matchmaker in Los Angeles, California makes it look oh so easy in her reality television show on the Bravo Television network.

The second season of the popular reality series, The Millionaire Matchmaker, premiered last month with Patti doing her usual set ups; millionaires with average looking want to be housewives. But creating a twist, by including female millionairesses and gay millionaire clients to the list. With that, includes famous former athletes as well.

The Millionaire Matchmaker follows Patti and her staff as they give “normal” and sometimes ivy league educated women the chance to meet, fall in love with and ultimately marry a millionaire. But this can only happen if the millionaires or millionairesses pay the big-bucks to join Patti’s elite dating service that is complete with beauty transformations , help of personal shoppers for new style, date coaches and therapists for the clients who have either ageism or commitment issues of that sort.


Patti founded her company the Millionaire's Club in January of 2000 with background she gained while working years earlier in a large popular dating service.

Her bluntness with clients on the show makes it comical, but informative too for single people looking for the right one...or the right one with a big bank account allowing this show to be a worth while one to say the most.



Patti’s staff includes:

•President of Matching, Chelsea Autumn.
•Executive assistant, Destin Pfaff .
•Pfaff's girlfriend, Rachel, the new office assistant.

The Millionaire Matchmaker is on every Thursday night on the Bravo network. To catch up on full episodes, click here.

Saves You Time: Time and Money Saved on this Site

Do you find it hard to constantly go to the movie theater because of time or money problems? Well, here's a website that might be the most known one among viewing free still-in-the-theater movies without the hassle and threat of actually downloading them.

Watch-Movies-Links.net offers full length (bootlegged) movies that are currently in the theaters, giving site visitors more money in their pockets and the luxury of time.


The site also offers forums for site visitors to chat about new, old and even upcoming movies. Along with forums, you can also register and create a username and develop a playlist of movies you have already watched and want to watch in the future when you get time to do so. It makes it flexible for the viewer. Though in some cases, the site must delete a movie because of publication rights. But if you check out the site, that rarely occurs since they tons of movies to choose from within their database.



However, if you don’t become a registered user within the site, sometimes it won’t let you continue on in a movie. But all you must do it just pop in your email address and name and you’re ready to go back to the movie. If you want to actually download the movie to keep a digital copy you can pay between $1.99 to $4.99.

Although, the quality sometimes isn’t that great since it is really someone illegally filming the movie while they watch it in the actual movie theater, it is worth the time than the money spent if you had to go to an actual theater to see it.

Worth Your Time: A Website that Makes Scrapbooking Easier

Having trouble finding a website to master your craft and scrapbooking skills? Well if so,Creatingkeepsakes.com might be the website for you, in order to help in a variety of ways when it comes to making something from the heart and soul.

Creaking Keepsakes, a scrapbooking magazine and website was formed from the CK Media company who is a noteworthy publisher of magazines relating to crafts of quilting, sewing, and scrapbooking. Creating Keepsakes tries to engage people in these activities while developing new ideas to engage a broader audience.

The website alone has a lot to offer just in case one might not be able to afford the sale price of $19.97 for the yearly subscription fee (12 issues). The website shares scrapbooking tips and more.

The website offers a variety of topics a beginner or even a veteran scrapbooker could learn and love.



•Community Page – Offers site visitors the interaction through blogs, forums, contests and software help.

•Gallery Page – Showcases published and unpublished scrapbook pages and other crafts to site visitors.

•Events Page – Lists CK events like conventions, classes, retreats and other events that they host giving the opportunity for everyone to join across the country.

•Shopping Page – Offers an assortment of products ranging from books, magazines, editing software, page kits, scrapbook albums and other products that will help guide you to love scrapbooking or learn to do it.

•Workspace Page – Allowing site visitors to register and login and speak with other CK site visitors about their work. It also allows you to display your work to others as well.

Overall, Creatingkeepsakes.com is a website that is worth your time; taking your time without knowing as the site is filled with so much to read and learn from.

Worth Your Time: A Shallow Drama Warps You Back In Time

The world's most famous ZIP code, 90210 returned to primetime this past September, but at a different network, the CW network rather than Fox and is still ongoing starting again in at the end of this month.

The show reverts to the old title of the original Beverly Hills 90210, but is simply shortened to 90210 to make it shorter to say and to well mostly avoid confusion with the original which ended in 2000.

The CW network in attempts to create a sister show to Gossip Girl which is all about wealthy, overpowered teens in New York City was now created in Beverly Hills, California. But by any definition, high school is high school and the world of spoiled teens and even parents creates the same feeling; which ultimately scores high on the list of primetime mild-drama.


The show isn’t a remake of the original, but revival of where it left off, just many years later. In fact, the show’s past actresses Jennie Garth (Kelly Taylor) who now plays the school psychologist and Shannen Doherty (Brenda Walsh) who ultimately is Kelly’s old time rival best friend returns making the show more interesting and the feeling of wanting to watch the original series all over again.

The plot has Harry Wilson (Rob Estes)and Debbie Wilson (Lori Loughlin) as the new family who moves from Kansas City to the ever-so populated Beverly Hills. Harry becomes the new principal at West Beverly High while his wife is a unpopular photographer while they bring along their honor-roll daughter Annie (Shenae Grimes) and adopted African American son Dixon (Tristan Wilds).

The story line of the spin off revolves around all of the usual upper-class concerns; cheating sexually, taking short cuts to success, love children and lavish cars and dates. The characters of the show are the same classic rich snobs who are surrounded by social groups made up of Naomi (Anna Lynne McCord), a blonde who is stuffy and thinks her shit doesn’t stink along with her on again off again boyfriend, Ethan (Dustin Milligan), who holds the role of the cute jock.

90210 might appear to be shallow, but actually turns out to be a feel good time warp that has anyone wanting more and more each week.



New episodes begin Tuesday, March 31st at 9pm eastern time on the CW network. Click here to get local listings.

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Not Worth Your Time: Watchmen Does Nothing But Slow Down Your Watch

Watchmen offers up multiple striking visual moments, but fails to generate those ever-so-wanted goose bump moments that make the film as good as the other superhero comic films like Batman or Spiderman.

Finally, according to comic book fans everywhere the greatest comic ever written, the Watchmen was brought to theaters. Unfortunately it fell from the sky under pressure, just like one character does in the beginning. The bad news about the film really is that it crumbles and strangles itself for almost three hours while the plot is essentially given away in the first 20 minutes. So overall, the good news is that once you see the opening credits you can hit the exit doors as it is easily the highlight of the film.

The plot tells its tale ever so slowly, explaining how a bunch of crime-fighters formed a secret club which was known as the Minutemen, who then were succeeded by copycats of them who were now known as the Watchmen. This entails a flick through history from the nineteen-forties to the eighties, with scenes of masked figures shaking hands and taking photos with popular public officials during those times.


As far as the superheroes go, it’s unsuccessful in giving the spotlight to a single character for more than two minutes, like other superhero movies such as Fantastic Four.The main characters are played out by:

•Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), a some what of a psychopath, his face covered by a mask where inky patches constantly blot and re-form making him actually a little scary along with his scratchy voice that depicts trouble all in its self.

•Dan(Patrick Wilson), better known as the Night Owl, who keeps his old superhero outfit locked away in his basement with the other Watchmen toys and gadgets for that “just in case” moment of the future.

•The Comedian, who also it referred to as Eddie Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who is tragically killed in the opening of the film but gives movie viewers flashbacks of his unique superhero bigot attitude.

•Laurie, whose known as the alias of Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) is the remake of her mother’s character from the original Minutemen. She remains sexy in her tight costume, but falls in love by little surprise.

•Adrian Veidt(Matthew Goode), who likes to be called Ozymandias. Ozymandias who becomes the secret of the whole film, as one might have guessed since he is absent in almost the whole three hours of the film.

This isn’t your classic superhero movie whatsoever, but an attempt at one while including a couple of erotic and nude moments hoping to score more than that. However, the only thing that it actually scores is parents unhappy reactions to the sexual encounters of the film; even though it is purposely rated “R” for a reason.



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Worth Your Time: Most Confess, They Enjoyed “Shopaholic”

Confessions of a Shopaholic turns out to be light and cheerful fun film while relating the hidden truth of how the younger generation sees credit and the economy.

The film presents the adorable, funny, yet smart Rebecca Bloomwood (played by Isla Fisher) who is a 20-something who has maxed out all her credit cards by compensating for her childhood in which her mother (played by Joan Cusack) bought everything as sensible as it could be. In just the opposite, Rebecca ends up spending more than she earns on designer clothes, shoes, scarves, accessories and even underwear.

Although Rebecca is a little oblivious in seeing that consistently spending more than you earn is a formula for disaster. But for Rebecca the shopping sprees defines her identity and self-worth which correlates into the pleasure she gets from her new designer items. The problem is that the feeling doesn't last, so she has to buy more and more.



Just when things get really bad as she loses her job, she lands a new one at a business magazine by accident, giving her the foot in the door to work at a major fashion magazine in which she really desires.

The entire plot of the film is told in a matter of a couple of weeks on explaining how Rebecca lets things get completely out of control throughout her entire life.However, along the way, she becomes surprisingly successful while creating poker faces to bluff her way through multiple situations, ultimately though she has to face the truth by first finding herself….and by falling in love of course.



Fisher is supported by the other remaining cast members that includes Hugh Dancy, John Goodman,and Kristin Scott Thomas along with a variety of others.

Confessions of a Shopaholic is a better film than might be expected, even if it turns out to be as shallow as most would say it is by just reading the title of the film.

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