Category Archives: Movies

TED Tuesday – J.J. Abrams

For those of you in the midst of NaNoWriMo and for the rest of us in the midst of writing anything, here is J.J. Abrams talking about the blank page as the ultimate "mystery box" and how technology inspires him. What mystery boxes are you ...

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Review – The Lookout

This is how you make a movie about coming to terms with  disability into a gripping, edge-of-the-seat action flick. This is how you make a movie about a shoot-em-up bank heist into a subtle study ...

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300 (or should that be 1800?)

That's my last comment about the golden, glistening abs in the movie (seriously, at one point I thought I was looking at shields in the distance - it was their abs!) Enough has been said about the abs elsewhere, in fact they and the 'HooHah'-ing pretty much dominated most of the pre-release reviews. I ...

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Sin City

I was going to write a review of Sin City which is yet another totally shallow, in fact empty, group of characters a la Mr. & Mrs. Smith but my husband wrote his ...

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War of the Worlds

We are big War of the Worlds fans in our house and not just of the book - Jeff Wayne's Rock Musical Version often blares from the speakers (nice and loud so as ...

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith – a watershed in Anti-Hero Psychology? (Yes. Really.)

Mini-spoilers ahead.Michael and I felt like a light action flick (as we often do) and decided to see Mr. & Mrs.. We laughed quite a bit but were basically left feeling pretty cold about the experience and as I thought about it, I realised that its very shallowness may actually mark it as a ...

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