Heather Havrilesky has an interesting take on Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless little pig” episode at Salon.com . She writes : “Rude, thoughtless little pig” was mild talk in my family, the kind of thing you might hear when you forgot to take out the trash. For a few years when my older brother was in high […]
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The Holiday
This film could be classified as a chick-flick because it’s based upon the romantic lives of two contemporary women, one American (Amanda – a wholly American looking Cameron Diaz) and one British (Iris – a dark-haired and considerably slimmed down Kate Winslet). Amanda is the very rich Hollywood based movie-trailer producer with her very own […]
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Looking at the poster with Will Smith looking all beatific, and Smith junior looking fairly pleased too, one might think this a “happy” film. But “The Pursuit of Happiness” is one of those sad, sad movies which make life seem like a tightrope walking exercise – one misstep and you fall down into the dumps. […]
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Premonition is another time-travel film. Well, not time-travel in the sense that you’re transported to 1325 and must survive and get back to present time. Rather it’s a case of time warping in weird ways. Remember “Groundhog day” ? Bill Murray waking up to find that every day is Groundhog Day – a sort of […]
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxkmbk1a2Qk] There’s a tune stuck in my head. You know how that happens, don’t you ? You hear it on and off, sometimes louder, sometimes toned down but it’s under your skin, it’s everywhere. It transports well, from the house to the car, from the car to the outside world. And it has a negligible […]
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Much has been said about the new Bond. And all they say is true. Really, here’s a Bond I actually like. In Casino Royale Daniel Craig essays the part almost to perfection. Lots of muscle, great physical fitness, and apparently a sharp mind to go with that (how else do you dare challenge a master […]
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This is a smart, witty film, which is in places funny, even though it has a sad/neurotic under-tone to it. It is the story of 4 friends : Christine (Catherine Keener) unhappily married to fellow screen-writer David, Jane (Frances McDormand) a famous fashion designer married to Aaron (who Christine thinks is gay), Franny (Joan Cusack) […]
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This is the first book by Connely that I have read, and it took me a few days. Not that the book was uninteresting, jut that time was scarce. The book actually is a top notch legal thriller, interesting enough to want one to finish the book even if you break the reading for a […]
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Superman is back and hasn’t aged a bit since we last saw him. In fact, after a little less than 2 decades since the last Superman film, the man in blue seems to have gotten younger. Played by Brandon Routh (26), Superman looks so young, I’m amazed Clark Kent is even out of college, much […]
Read the rest of this entry »Blade Runner
Saw Blade Runner right after I read the novel. And it was dissapointing. The book was good, albeit a bit too philosophically depressing. The film had a real 80’s style feel to it – brought back memories of Madonna and her early videos, and her radical colored hair-styles. Yes, the film was made in the […]
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