Archive for July, 2007
Harry Potter and the broken car window
I had high hopes for Saturday . I woke up with plans to invent some 8X10 prints of my South Africa photos, which you can view in a Flickr set here, and next see the new “Harry Potter” movie. Alas, none of that was to be.As I emerged from my rather small domicile, pictured at right, I found that some…
Die Hard 4.0
The verdict: A grizzled hero and a wiseguy side-kick take on tooled up baddies and some kick-ass action ensues.. Die Hard 4.0 may work from a template, but it does it’s thing with gusto. that is a cracking balls-out action movie.The rating: 7.0 (…what’s with the decimal point!? - Ed)Live Free or D…
Can Bill Maher be the next Borat? God help us!
Although it pains me to confess it, I’ve never much cared for Bill Maher.Now, don’t get me wrong. It was a high crime when “Politically Incorrect” was pulled off the air by ABC (as Lorelai Gilmore put it so well, “the show’s called ‘Politically Incorrect,’ what did they expect?”)If memory serves me …
Sicko
The verdict: Moving, didactic, and not as politically divisive as Moore’s previus offerings, ‘Sicko’ is his best work to date.The rating: 7/10Michael Moore seems to have an ability to polarise American audiences in a manner few other film-makers can replicate. With his two previous documentaries, Mo…
Manon des Sources (aka Manon of the Spring)
Readers of my blog, A Blog About Nowt, may remember the saga that surrounded my trying to source a copy of Jean de Florette sequel Manon des Sources in my neighbourhood. It was quite a thing of beauty. Anyway, that’s by the by.Manon des Sources picks up the story a few years after the end of Jean de…
Manon des Sources
Readers of my blog, A Blog About Nowt, may remember the saga that surrounded my trying to source a copy of Jean de Florette sequel Manon des Sources in my neighbourhood. It was quite a thing of beauty. Anyway, that’s by the by.Manon des Sources picks up the story a few years after the end of Jean de…
Series 7: The Contenders
The verdict: Subversive, intelligent and with a deliberately dark sense of humour, the low-budget hand-held style belies is a deceptively good movie.The rating: 7/10′Reality tv’ tends to provoke strong reactions. Water cooler conversations on the subject can start innocently decent with questions li…
