Friday, March 25, 2011

3.5" Nylon Precision Brush Set for Cleaning Airbrushes, Spray Guns, & Tattoo Tube Tip

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With the Dragon TattooFans of Stieg Larsson's Men Who Hate Women may have been concerned about how the Swedish author's novel would translate to the screen, but they needn't have worried. Significant changes to the source material have been made, but director Niels Arden Opley's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as it's now called, is mostly riveting. As the story begins, middle-aged investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) has just been convicted of a bogus charge of libel against a rich and corrupt corporate hotshot when he's unexpectedly offered a most unusual gig. An aging captain of industry named Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) wants Blomkvist to figure out what happened to Vanger's niece, who disappeared more than 40 years earlier; not only is the old man convinced that she was murdered, but he suspects that another member of his large and rather disagreeable family (which includes several former Nazis) is the culprit. Blomkvist takes the job, which includes spending at least six months on Vanger's isolated island in the middle of winter. But what he doesn't know is that he's being spied on by twentysomething Lisbeth Salander (brilliantly played by Noomi Rapace in a career-making performance), the titular Girl and the possessor of remarkable skills as a sleuth and computer hacker. With her gothlike piercings and all-black clothes, Lisbeth is a vivid character, to say the least. While we don't exactly know the details of her dark past, it's obviously still with her; indeed, she's just been assigned a new "guardian" (like a parole officer) to look after her finances and other matters. We also know that she is not someone to mess with; when the guardian turns out to be a thoroughly vile monster, Lisbeth gets back at him in one of the more satisfying revenge sequences in recent memory. That Lisbeth and Mikael should end up working together, and more, isn't especially surprising. But the horrifying details and depths of depravity they uncover while working on the case (parallels to The Silence of the Lambs are facile but appropriate) definitely are, and Opley does a nice job of keeping it all straight. At more than two and a half hours, the film is long, with its share of grim, graphic, and scary moments, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a winner. --Sam Graham

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Monday, March 21, 2011

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played With FireThe toughest chick in Sweden returns to action in The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second film adaptation of the late author Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy novels. That would be Lisbeth Salander, once again played with quiet, feral intensity by Noomi Rapace. As Larsson's readers and anyone who saw the first film (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also released in 2010) knows, Lisbeth is small in stature but big trouble for any man who crosses her--after all, this is the woman who set her father on fire after he abused her mother and later, after being released from a mental institution, took extreme revenge on her legal guardian after he brutally assaulted her (those scenes are briefly revisited for the enlightenment of those who missed the earlier film). Also back is investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), Lisbeth's erstwhile lover and partner in solving the Dragon Tattoo mystery. When two of his young colleagues are killed while at work on a story about sex trafficking, followed shortly by the murder of the aforementioned guardian, Salander is the prime suspect. But Mikael is sure of her innocence; in fact, he's convinced she's the next victim, leading to a tangled tale in which Lisbeth learns more about her family and its very dark secrets than she ever wanted to know. The story is compelling, if a bit slow to take shape, and director Daniel Alfredson, taking over for Niels Arden Oplev, skillfully sustains the mystery and tension (there are also doses of nudity and violence, the latter much more graphic than the former). But Lisbeth isn't on screen nearly as much this time, and her relationship with Blomkvist, so central to Dragon Tattoo, is almost an afterthought. Still, The Girl Who Played with Fire will certainly whet fans' appetites for the next installment, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; and considering the overall class and quality of these Swedish productions, one shudders to think how they'll turn out in the inevitable American versions, the first of which is due in 2011, with Daniel Craig as Blomkvist. --Sam Graham

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Artograph 10-Inch-by-12-Inch LightTracer Light Box

Artograph 10-Inch-by-12-Inch LightTracer Light BoxLightTracer light box has a 10x12 opaque screen and plastic frame (lightweight). The interior bulb is the popular 12 8 watt bright white bulb. Top of box features a tool tray. Great for copying graphics photos templates anything! Applications for memory albums (trace templates mats borders die-cuts etc.) quilters (trace stencils stitching lines right to the fabric!) needle artists painters and more! One side of box features memory related graphics the other side of the box features stitching related graphics. UL Listed 115 volts.

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Friday, March 18, 2011

HP Pavilion dv6-3013nr 15.6-Inch Laptop - Argento

HP Pavilion dv6-3013nr 15.6-Inch Laptop - ArgentoCount on serious playtime with a sleek, secure HP laptop. The HP Pavilion dv6-3013nr Entertainment Notebook PC has a stylish and durable brushed aluminum finish with the stream design in argento. Use the integrated fingerprint reader and exclusive HP SimplePass software to manage your passwords and log in to secure websites, plus watch DVDs on the 15.6-inch diagonal High-Definition HP BrightView LED Display. Video chat in low-light environments easily using the integrated HP webcam and browse the Web using built-in Wi-Fi. Get impressive performance that can keep up with your busy life. With the HP Pavilion dv6-3013nr Entertainment Notebook PC, enjoy fast multitasking using a triple-core processor and 4GB of memory.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

12 Pc Assorted Dinosaur Fossil Skeleton Figures - Toys 5-6" Larger Size Dinosaurs

12 Pc Assorted Dinosaur Fossil Skeleton Figures - Toys 5-6Set of Dinosaur Skeletons includes twelve different 3 dimensional figures that stand up to 4-3/4 inches tall or 6 inches long. They're made from flexible plastic and can stand up on their own. Great fun indoors or out. You can even have a pre-historic dig and bury these "fossil like" figures and dig them back up, wash them off and play some more - great fun!

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