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Teddy Bears, Torn Maps, and Broken Monitors: Security in Review

If you are like me, you love a good movie about a hero. Of course, this isn't about comic book superheroes, this is a film about ordinary people who do extraordinary things. A movie that will have you at the edge of your seat in this action thriller starring Antonio Banderas, Ben Kingsly, Liam McIntyre; Directed by Alain Desrochers.      Eddie Deacon (played by Antonio Banderas) a former Marine takes responsibility to protect a little girl (played by Katherine de la Rocha) from a gang who wants to prevent her from going to trial as a witness. Of course, this happens on his first night on the job as a Mall Security Guard.      Out of five stars, I would give this a four and a half stars. Security is the kind of movie where it succeeds on all fronts. Everything was prepared just right. Nothing was done without purpose. There is nearly a reason for everything. From the moment of Eddie's time alone in a hotel, it's dark and shows his turmoil, and then the mall sh

Castlevania, a Triumph or a Flop?

Castlevania, while many may not know this title, it is an adult cartoon based around the third Castlevania game, though a bit loosely.     Many of the players are the same that you played as or battled in various parts of the game.    It doesn't mean its exactly the same, there are fresh faces to the show such as Isaac and Hector, two human loyalists to the antagonist Dracula. Despite the cut and dry video game, this show is anything but that.    There are shades of gray to all of the villains, most of them, you can empathize with.    For Dracula, his desire to wipe out the human race is simply because they are the reason his wife is dead.   There is Isaac, who wants humans to die because of the trauma he suffered at their hands.    While Hector doesn't want the humans around in large groups because they destroy his creations, to give life from the dead.   There is more to this of course but there are more to these characters, the "villains".     Amongst tha