Original post: 10th December 2007
Being an extremely devoted fan of the media industry (films, radio, television, advertising, etc.) – and although I may despise it vehemently at times – I’m really excited about Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s new WWII mini-series The Pacific. After watching the brilliance that was Band of Brothers (superb in every [...]
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Original post: 19th December 2007
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Batman, I think, is turning out to be one of the better-made Marvel comic cum films. Batman Begins was a visual spectacular (although I’m not so sure about the ninjas – but then again that was in the original comics so who am I to gripe?) and [...]
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Original post: 15th September 2007
After wasting an entire day online, this is my confession: I read too many comics for my own good.
It all started when I was young (and impressionable) and my Dad bought me the entire set of Andy Capp, Vater und Sohn and a myriad of other cartoons in Chinese, English and [...]
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Original post: 18th September 2007
Of Mice and Men is John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella that tells, to quote a friend, the story of when “dreams die in the hands of mercy.”
-contains spoilers-
George Milton and Lennie Small are displaced ranch workers in California during the time of the Great Depression. George is a small man with a [...]
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Original post: 18th November 2007
I’ve been meaning to get something off my chest for all these months of bloody-sweating study. However, I’m afraid that that must come later as I might need to get my thoughts in order so that my side of the argument does not sound like the emotional pleas of a half-arsed [...]
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Original post: 19th September 2007
Friday Night Lights is the film based on H. G. Bissinger’s book of the same name that documents the journey of a high school American football team and the community of economically-depressed Odessa, Texas whose hopes and dreams live and die with the Permian Panthers.
Having read Eyeshield 21 and become obsessed [...]
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Original post: 16th September 2007
I did say I was going to watch some Sky Captain, didn’t I? Well here’s the low-down (caution: I love sci-fi films like this so I may be biased):
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a visually stunning piece that mirrors the soft lighting (but high contrast) of the [...]
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As we bid farewell to the old, the new beckons us with the shining allure of the fresh start, the blank pages unsullied with vociferous protests and half-truths.
I shall be bringing over some old reviews and when all the paperwork has been gone through and through, I shall tell you of the Life and Times [...]
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