Drama, Movies

The Sea Inside

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I had no knowledge what the film was about. After an intense day of work, I needed to distract myself and The Sea Inside seemed to be the most promising motion picture on the new title shelf in the video store. I would have written a somewhat different review, had I not found out after image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Farewell to “The Sopranos”

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Five years ago “The Sopranos” became a surprise TV hit on HBO. Who would have guessed that America would tune in every week to watch the family life of a New Jersey mafia family “cope” with the challenges of upper-middle class while keeping a crime ring running. Even for a mafia family, it is tough image [Read More]
Humor, People

Finally a Politician who Speaks his Mind

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Some of Putin’s spades, taken from his first four-year term, have been collected in a slim volume called “Putinki: A Short Collection of the President’s Sayings,” and they suggest that quite a bit is going on inside that dour black suit. After a trans-Atlantic trip, Dec. 24, 2001: I wasn’t that excited about spending the night at image [Read More]
Movies, Phantasy

The Island

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The Island takes you on a surprising trip. You think that you will end up on a tropical paradise, but the films takes you to lands that you never expected. And it will make you think about your own life in ways that you may have never dared before. It’s a journey worth taking.

Diary

Wedding Crashers

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If my eyes did not fool me, Senator John McCain made a very brief cameo appearance in this average comedy that in the end takes a big bow in front of the institution of marriage. But there is a lot of loose behavior and fowl language (sometimes funny) that will not please the “moral” coalition image [Read More]
Humor, People

Attention Soccer Moms and Dads

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If your son or daughter does not want to go to soccer practice today, here is an another argument you can use to convince your couch potato and possibly too intellectual child:  “Sweetie, if you become really good at soccer, you can become rich and one day even have a private meeting with the pope.” image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Being Julia

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Julia (Annette Benning) is the leading theatre actress in England of 1938. She is in midlife and she is bored. Her husband (Jeremy Irons), who owns the theatre in which she performs and with whom she enjoys a perfectly sexless marriage, introduces her to a young American fan, Tom. Tom confesses his love for Julia image [Read More]