Tag: movie review
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Movie rawr: Requiem for the American Dream
It is hard to level criticism at a documentary that has the famous Noam Chomsky as spokesperson in it. Who am I to naysay a man who knows more, has experienced more, means more and has more written all over? But this, in a strange manner, works both ways. When a documentary is out to […]
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Movie thoughts: Taxi Driver
The scene A man has his arms crossed across his chest. He stares into the camera. He challenges an unknown adversary: are you talking to me? Are you talking to me…? Whom else would you be talking to? Taxi Driver is about a man who returns from a foreign war to eek out a […]
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Review: Maleficent
Maleficent I often find myself among the cynical as it comes to movies, so when I see a movie that is heartwarming I suddenly know what I have been missing out. Maleficent is such a heartwarming movie because it wants to make you understand the reason for the actions of the ‘evil’ person in an […]
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Movie review: Colombiana
I would contend that almost any story is a voyage – often a mental one, if not always – and not seldom expressed in a physical one, where the protagonists move from one place to the next as a mirror to their mental journey in which they travel from one state to the other. Just […]
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Movie review: Best of Enemies
While Best of Enemies is a documentary it could have easily been turned into a movie as it views like a dramatic story that works towards a climax at the end of the ten head on collisions between the progressive liberal Gore Vidal and the (neo) conservative William F. Buckley. The exchanges are cloaked as […]
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