Review

Movie Review: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

Not quite. That’s about all I can usefully say about the cinematographic version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The cast are all but one not quite well-cast for their respective parts, and deliver their lines not quite convincingly. The acting is not quite good enough, the directing not quite bold and daring. The […]

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Chrono-Displaced Persons And Other Brilliance

Recommendation: read Audrey Niffenegger’s ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’. Nuff said. … Okay, I relent. The cleverest time travel tale I’ve read to date as well as a deeply moving love story and a whirlwind tour of three decennia of American contemporary history, TTTW is a book that shook me to the bone and left me […]

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History Repeats Itself

At least, that’s what ‘Making history’ by Stephen Fry has the reader believing. A clever and well-researched time travel tale as well as a very loud message on the wisdom of assassinating Hitler, ‘Making history’ is a missionary book: a speculative fiction novel that has a good chance of convincing normal people that science fiction […]

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Ahem, There Seems To Be A Tiger…

If you’re looking for an enchanting, original, suspenseful, magical, poetic, confusing, charming book to read, and even if you’re not but like novels in general, go out and buy Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Or better still, order the book through Amazon right now. It’s one of those books that I will henceforth, having […]

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Movie Review: Thir13en Ghosts

Oh well. On the upside, it wasted only 83 minutes of my life. And the effects were fairly successful. And Shannon Elizabeth gets to look pretty and stupid, and how well does she do it! Otherwise a waste of celluloid, where every possible cliché is pulled out of an ancient hat of horror; where a […]

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Movie Review: Open Range

Now based on factual information, experience and calculation of the odds, I have to go by the assumption that everyone who raved about this movie in the media, to me personally, as well as online, saw the same movie I just did. I’ll just have to shelve my confusion and give you my minority report. […]

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Movie Review: As Good As It Gets

Since it’s so much easier and more fun to write about bad movies, I was almost not going to say anything at all about this one – there’s simply nothing wrong with it. A quirky, irreverent feel-good-drama if there ever was one, this movie does it just right. From the incredible Nicholson and Hunt performances […]

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Movie Review: Tears of the Sun

This movie was recommended to me by my video clerk, and I will now do my utmost to get him fired. It is a terrible movie. And I’m not even talking about the terrible script, terrible direction, terrible acting – pretty bad editing too. What’s wrong with? God, where to start. Okay, let’s start with […]

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Movie Review: The league of extraordinary gentlemen

Though I would prefer to write a more extensive review of this bad, bad movie, it has made so little impression on me that even now, five minutes after the dvd ended, I remember hardly anything about it. Except, of course, how bad it is. Admittedly, they started out with a terrible script, and that […]

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Movie review: Godzilla

Now there’s been enough said about the embarassing quality of this movie, so I will refrain from thrashing it some more (except to state that it is, in fact, a terrible, terrible movie). Instead I’d like to focus on whatever it is that Matthew Broderick thinks he is doing all through the entire 140 minutes […]

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