The Good, the Bad and the English
So, what’s new? Verena and I are getting married. (YAY!) I just had one of my wisdom teeth pulled out. (NOT YAY!) We’re probably going to London in a couple of days to see Hellboy 2. (YAY!)
Author: Jonas
The Punisher (short review)
I used to think Thomas Jane was a bad actor. Then I saw The Mist and learned otherwise: he’s excellent. (Also, he must be James Purefoy’s long-lost twin brother.) Unfortunately, The Punisher is anything but excellent. It has some of the right ideas, and a couple of scenes (especially the …
Reign of Fire (short review)
Some movies are so bad, they’re hilarious. Some movie are bad and just blah. This falls somewhere inbetween. The plot, while cool on a very basic conceptual level (post-apocalyptic world full of dragons) is so badly thought through that it makes your head hurt. I mean, the whole movie is …
Sahara (short review)
When Sahara is an adventure movie, it’s fun. The actors are all good, the landscapes are great, there’s some nice action scenes, and the writing isn’t half bad. When it tries to do African politics, and tries to appear critical of the United States (for NOT intervening in another country’s …
Greek Thoughts
All the prices here have gone up to EU standards, even on local things like fruit – but people still have approximately a third of the income. Isn’t the EU a wonderful thing? The amount of cool and exotic animals – from water turtles to colourful lizards to wild jackals …
Thinking on a Battlestar
Verena and I have been re-watching Battlestar Galactica. Well, it’s re-watching in my case; Verena hasn’t seen it before. Now, as you may know, I am prone to complaining about BSG, my main complaints being its militarism, its confusion of personal issues and responsibilities with politics, its lack of humour, …
Bender’s Big Score
Here’s the first in a long series of short reviews. I don’t have much time to write these, but I do want to jot down some thoughts. (The way I work, don’t be surprised if some of them turn out a little longer after all.) Saw Bender’s Big Score yesterday, …
Going for the Hitler thing…
Berlusconi has been in power for just two months, and already he’s going for the full-on Hitler thing. It’s amazing to see fascism spread its wings over Europe again, and most people not even reacting. This why shit happened the last time, you’d think someone would get that this is …
George Carlin
As most of you probably know, George Carlin died a few days ago. I’m still shocked. I mean, it’s George Carlin . He wasn’t old, right? Not possible. The guy was so alive. So present. But since when has that meant anything? A lot of people I admired died a …
Forwarding…
URGENT: Greenpeace whale activists arrested in Japan Two Greenpeace activists who exposed a whale meat embezzlement fraud in Japan — Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki — have been themselves arrested — for allegedly stealing the whale meat that they turned over to police as evidence. This is the backlash. We’ve …