Patrick Swayze only has five weeks to live.

That news is having a hard time sinking in for me today. The National Enquirer broke the news earlier and it started spreading around the internet today. Diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, the treatments haven't gone well and doctor's told Swayze to prepare for the end, whic

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The long awaited teaser to the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie is finally here and in glorious high definition. You can watch it over at A Mike Life of course and then check out the official site for super huge HD versions.Is the new Indiana Jones teaser good? Yes, it's so good that I've watched i

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New Line Cinema is being sued by The Tolkien Trust over earnings never received from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.The films grossed over $6 billion WORLDWIDE yet The Tolkien Trust hasn't seen any money from their shared profit earnigns portion of the contract which requries New Line to pay them 7.5%

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A new documentary is in the works called 'The People vs. George Lucas' and it looks like a seriously interesting and cool project.

The point behind The People vs. George Lucas is to give fans of Star Wars a chance to be heard and vent their feelings about how Lucas has ruined their beloved Star Wars movies with the crappy

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It's hard to believe that it's here, because of how long it lasted, but the Writer's Guild of America strike is now offically over.The Guild members voted 92.5% in favor of the new deal with the AMTPT, while a few die-hards stuck it out and wanted to keep the strike going.Writers are back to work on Wednesday and some were b

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A busy weekend for A Mike Life at the theaters and we came away with some interesting looking trailers that needed to be passed on to the rest of you.

First you have Baby Mama, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, a comedy in which Fey cannot have kids, so Poehler becomes a surrogate for her.

Then there is Chaos Theory, another

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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a surprisingly awesome documentary about the life of classic arcade gamers who strive to set records on the big boxed video games we used to play as kids.

Steve Weibe and Billy Mitchell are the center figures in The King of Kong, both are trying to be the top record holder in total

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3:10 to Yuma is a remake of the old western about an evil outlaw who robs stagecoaches for money, and the troubled rancher who tries to deliver him to the 3:10 train to Yuma, Arizona.

Christian Bale and Russell Crowe star in 3:10 to Yuma, along with Ben Foster and quite a few other familiar faces.

Crowe runs a gang of out

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One of the scariest diseases in our country right now is cancer and I'm sure everyone knows someone who has beaten it or worse, died from it.

My mother-in-law beat breast cancer over 5 years ago and I'm so proud of the way she handled herself and how she's lived since that time.

To honor her and those others around me,

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The Shaquille O'Neal era in Phoenix officially began Wednesday afternoon at a press conference by Steve Kerr and Mike D'Antoni. They were excited and almost giddy over getting the big man, who they both believe is far from finished, despite being almost 36 years old.

The Phoenix Suns trainers are regarded as the best

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The wait for the next big Star Trek movie just got a bit longer.ComingSoon.net is reporting that the new Star Trek sequel from J.J. Abrams has been delayed until May 8th, 2009, after originally scheduled for a December 25th release.Studio insiders say that the film can make a ton more money in a May release with no competition,

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I made it my goal this year to make sure I saw all 5 of the nominees for the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards in a few weeks. There Will Be Blood was the last film I had to see in that group and it certainly wasn't the least. There Will Be Blood was an epic story of a man so evil that anyone who competes against him is

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A funny thing happened on the way to my blog today. I was stopped by an email from FOX.

That's right...FOX...of course, it wasn't for anything good.

Apparently their teaser for The Happening is out on the internet illegally and being shown by all kinds of blogs and entertainment sites. FOX is emailing bloggers,

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Jaws was one of the scariest and greatest thrillers of all time, and the star of the film will ever be remember as a rugged police chief trying to hunt down the killer shark.

Sadly, Roy Scheider died on Sunday, February 10th, at the age of 75 at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital. The cause of death i

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The strike isn't over yet, but a lot of people are assuming that it is, especially with the Oscar's so close at hand. The WGA and AMTPT have reached an agreement in theory and are presenting it to their members this week.

That means things could start rolling again real soon. And with that in light, the big question

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