June 19, 2013

Those Pesky Garden Gnomes by Rio Grande Games

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Title: Those Pesky Garden Gnomes Authors: JonMichael Rasmus, John Sams, and Sean Weitner Publisher: Rio Grande Games Type: Card Games Number of players: 3-5 Age of players: 13+ Length: 30 minutes Suggested Retail: $29.95 Game Description: This is a trick-taking cards game with a twist – or two! The game uses standard trick-taking rules and is played over several hands. In every … [Read more...]

Heartland Film Festival 2012: Dave

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2012 | 93 min | Documentary Feature Directed by: Eric Geadelmann Dave is a great uplifting story of how a young, motivated man (Adam) puts his dreams on hold to help a troubled youth (Dave) find himself.  As one watches the film, you can see not only how Dave grows and lets his personality shine with the help of Adam, but how Adam grows with the help of Dave.  The truly uplifting part of … [Read more...]

Heartland Film Festival 2012: Future Weather

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  2012 | 100 min | Narrative Feature Directed by: Jenny Deller At first glance, Future Weather comes across as a political manifesto about global warming and how it is up to us to change it before it is too late...  We quickly learn though that Future Weather is not about the climate of the world, it is a reflection on the climate of our lives.  Filmmaker Jenny Deller takes us to a town of … [Read more...]

Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

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Hidden America isn't your average "read before bed time story."  No one is falling in love, saving a damsel in distress, or solving a crime.  In this book, we follow a different protagonist--the author.  On a journey to share the stories of those often overlooked, Jeanne Marie Laskas takes us along on her mission to bridge the gap between perception and reality of those that make the world go … [Read more...]

Leonard Maltin’s 2013 Movie Guide: The Modern Era

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In this 1,664 page reference book Leonard Maltin includes more than 17,000 capsule movie reviews as well as a listing of popular actors and actresses and the films they have appeared in. To test the depth of the movies covered in Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide: The Modern Era, I requested that our Twitter followers and Facebook fans send the title of any theater released … [Read more...]