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Lincoln – Review

Lincoln – Review

                                                                             Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt Abraham Lincoln Warning: Gush-fest ahead. Story: Lincoln is a 2012 historical drama film directed and produced by Steven...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2: Review

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2: Review

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi   IMDB: After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi. Director: Bill Condon Writers: Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Stephenie Meyer...

Cloud Atlas – Review, kind of…

Cloud Atlas – Review, kind of…

 If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.  Kurt Cobain The official synopsis for Cloud Atlas: An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present, and future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of...

31 Days of Horror: Mutant Vampire Zombies From the Hood! – Review

31 Days of Horror: Mutant Vampire Zombies From the Hood! – Review

To celebrate Halloween Live for Films is having a horror movie review each night in the 31 Days of Horror. You can see last years 31 days here. You can be involved by sending me your review of a horror film – new, old, good, bad, depressing, funny, disgusting, psychological. As long as it can be classed as a horror then you can send it over to me...

The Odd Life of Timothy Green – Review

The Odd Life of Timothy Green – Review

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. Pablo Casals Storyline: A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he...

True Blood – A delicious wait – TV Review

True Blood – A delicious wait – TV Review

 My piece assumes you watch True Blood and know the characters. It is full of spoilers because I have watched the entire season and freely discuss it. You have been warned. The True Blood finale means that I’ll have to wait many months for a new episode. Aside from Bill going over to the dark side, will Sookie be bit by Bill or that air-monster thing? At...

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Spins Emmy Nominations – TV Review

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Spins Emmy Nominations – TV Review

The last episode of So You Think You Can Dance [SYTYCD] featured Mia Michaels’ Emmy-award winning choreography for the show. Mia’s website states : From stage to screen, Mia has turned dance into inspired and unique works of passion and beauty. She has rendered her unique style and vision of the craft, which is sought after by other innovators, from...

Batman Returns and Tank Girl – an academic exploration‏

Batman Returns and Tank Girl – an academic exploration‏

  So, this is a chapter from my thesis. The academically inclined might be interested.   CHAPTER IV Entangled Identities and Cyborg Territories “In myth the meaning is distorted by the concept” Roland Barthes, Mythologies (122)   This chapter will focus on hybrid identities and couplings which challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. I...

Prometheus: Or, an open letter to Phil and a Review

Prometheus: Or, an open letter to Phil and a Review

Everything ends, and Everything matters.   Ron Currie Jr.   [warning: spoilers ahead]   I was inspired by what Phil said in A theory about Prometheus and the Space Jockeys‏. [Review Here] For those of you that don’t know, Phil Edwards is the person behind this site, the head-honcho, big-cheese or boss. The following is not simply directed at...

Men in Black III: Or, Now you see me, Now you don’t

Men in Black III: Or, Now you see me, Now you don’t

    Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn’t what it used to be?    Jasper Fforde Background: Agent J travels in time to MIB’s early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Writers: Lowell Cunningham, Etan Cohen Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh...