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The Man In The High Castle, by P.K. Dick

I watched the entire series and then read the book because I wanted to see the changes that were made and if they actually translated Dick’s work and ideas into the film. In one way they did. In another, not. … Continue reading

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Horizon, updated

I’m pretty sorry to hear that Horizon Chapter 2 has been pulled from its original August release. I saw Chapter 1 again and it was much clearer the second time around. It still suffers from the basic flaw of not … Continue reading

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Resilience, by the elderly

Don’t like to include politics in this web site, read by no one, which is meant purely for me to talk about my thoughts and feelings about books and movies. I don’t allow comments because it seems that if you … Continue reading

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Horizon, An American Saga, by Jon Baird, Kevin Costner and Mark Kasdan

It’s hard to review a 4 chapter movie that’s only released its first part. But unlike the critics, I actually enjoyed this quite a bit, and in the audience I was with, there was a smattering of applause at the … Continue reading

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Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, a biography by Fred Kaplan

It’s always a little bit of a thrill to come to the end of an extraordinarily long book or novel. And with biographies, and how long they take to read, you often feel you are right there, experiencing the death … Continue reading

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Tuesday, by Daina Oniunas-Pusic

The preview for this movie makes it seem like this is going to be the biggest tear jerker in a long while, but it’s actually quite bizarre, and that makes it a rather special movie, I think. Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays … Continue reading

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Thelma, by Josh Margolin

Once again, the NYTimes has come out with another stupid review of a movie and this time it was Thelma. This review was by Jeannette Catsoulis, who appears to be on the movie staff and not just some rando “media” … Continue reading

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Nowhere Special, by Uberto Pasolini

Most movies which are tear jerkers or weepers or whatever you want to call them, make you cry during the movie, at some point. This one I didn’t cry at all, until the credits started rolling. I think that’s a … Continue reading

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The New Life, by Tom Crewe

and Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld, by Theo Aronson Since characters in the fictional book are real people in the non-fictional book, I thought I’d write about both books. In The New Life I only suspected a short way … Continue reading

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Eclipse, by science, and for other people, by God.

I drove out to my mom’s condo today, because for some bizarre reason, her home is about 3 yards of the line 0f totality. The line of totality is about 100 miles wide, but there is a singular line which … Continue reading

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