Category Archives: movies

Almost Famous – Tiny Dancer

August 26, 2010 – 5:01 am

Once again I ended up watching Almost Famous at a hostel. It’s a feel good experience that strangers can share. Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and telling the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the rock band Stillwater, and [...]

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price of movie rental = $1

August 24, 2010 – 5:02 am

The cost of infinitely reproducible digital ‘goods’, transferred via the web, will approach zero. In the States, McDonalds has dropped the price on very good, fairly recent movies to a dollar a night. And that’s for a DVD with real production and transportation costs. Some of the big Hollywood production houses try to fight Redbox. [...]

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The Green Zone – a review

July 19, 2010 – 5:01 am

This Matt Damon Hollywood blockbuster The Green Zone brings Iraq back to public interest. It details blunders made and deliberate lies told by some in the U.S. Government. Iraq’s been largely forgotten, I feel, as attention shifted to Afghanistan. This movie is timely. … The film was inspired by the non-fiction 2006 book Imperial Life [...]

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Invictus – a review

July 7, 2010 – 5:03 am

Nelson Mandela is a great hero of mine. I can’t think of any actor better suited to play him in a Hollywood movie than Morgan Freeman. Nor any director better than Clint Eastwood. Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube. Loved it. Invictus is a 2009 biographical drama film based on events in South [...]

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Dune: House Corrino

April 29, 2010 – 5:04 am

Corrino is the 3rd in the prequel trilogy of books leading up to the original novel, Dune. Dune: House Corrino Amazon I enjoyed it so much that I’ll continue with the audio version of the master work, itself. I see a huge future film epic something like Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, the acting [...]

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why movies are so BAD

April 28, 2010 – 5:48 am

I saw the movie 2012 and could not comprehend how and why talented people would conspire to make a move so terrible. … Peter Travers of Rolling Stone criticized the film by comparing it to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: “Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, [...]

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Roger Ebert reinvented

March 11, 2010 – 8:20 am

Chris Jones’ magazine profile of Roger Ebert in Esquire seems to have triggered an onslaught of media coverage. It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped. check [...]

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why you should pirate movies

February 24, 2010 – 5:05 pm

Too true. original version

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my review – Avatar

February 14, 2010 – 12:41 am

Finally saw the 3D version. Overall AWESOME. A breakthrough in technology that just might save the movie theatre business. Dialogue was good. Acting, overall quite good. Special effects simply brilliant, a big leap forward from anything else I’ve ever seen. I’d heard the plot was crappy and laughable. But Avatar has the same plot as [...]

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Meryl Streep – best actor ever?

January 29, 2010 – 12:22 pm

Few would argue that Meryl Streep is not the greatest actress of all time. The only other choice could be Katharine Hepburn. While beautiful, I’d say Meryl was not at all the typical Hollywood starlet nor bombshell. Perhaps because she wasn’t simply eye candy, she had a chance to get some meaningful roles. Cover girl [...]

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