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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review
7/10 Guardians of the Galaxy found the right tone the first time around and they’re sticking to it. And that is a very good decision, my lovelies, because cartoonish comedy is the only real way to sell a crazy space … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged Chris Pratt, film, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, James Gunn, Kurt Russell, Marvel, Michael Rooker, movie, review
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The Master (2012) Review
8.5/10 The Master follows a lost, deranged man named Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix). Psychologically damaged in the second world war, Quell returns to the US but finds it impossible to hold on to jobs. He has violent impulses and memory … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged Amy Adams, film, Joaquin Phoenix, movie, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, review, The Master
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Notes on Blindness (2016) Review
8/10 The film begins with nothing but a tape recorder to look at and a series of disembodied voices. It struck me that being blind you must also be surrounded by seemingly disembodied voices. The scholar John Hull lost his … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged documentary, film, John M. Hull, movie, Notes on Blindness, Peter Middleton, review
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Tim Birkhead – Bird Sense; What It’s Like to Be a Bird (2012) Review
When I studied biology in the 2000s as an undergraduate at Leiden University, the first course I ever had was about Behavioral Biology. In it, our professor urged us to think about animals as black boxes, with input of the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Non-fiction
Tagged biology, Bird Sense, Birds, Books, non fiction, review, science, Tim Birkhead
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) Review
7/10 There is a lot of material to choose from if you want to bring Ghost in the Shell to the big screen again. There’s the manga, two anime movies and a TV series, and I may have forgotten one … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged film, Ghost in the Shell, Juliette Binoche, movie, review, Scarlett Johansson, science fiction, SF
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Mark Lawrence – Prince of Fools (2014) Review
Genre: epic fantasy Series: The Red Queen’s War, 1 Pages: 355 My Rating: 7.5/10 Mark Lawrence is the current master of the first-person narrative in epic fantasy. His first series, The Broken Empire trilogy, made great use of this perspective … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Science fiction
Tagged book, broken empire, Fantasy, mark lawrence, Prince of Fools, review, The Red Queen's War
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Split (2016) Review
7.5/10 Wow. I did not expect this from a director whom I have been mocking since, well, the ending of The Village in 2004. This is a quality film. Very tense, very unpredictable. A very brave approach towards storytelling. Split … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged Anya Taylor-Joy, cinema, film, Haley Lu Richardson, horror, James McAvoy, M. Night Shyamalan, movie, review, Split
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) Review
9/10 It’s almost ridiculous how good this movie is. Ghost in the Shell (1995) should have had the impact on popular culture that The Matrix (1999) and Blade Runner (1982) had, because the movie can easily hold its own amongst … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Anime, Cyberpunk, film, Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii, movie, review, science fiction
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Cixin Liu – Death’s End (2016) Review
Genre: Science fiction Series: Remembrance of Earth’s Past, part 3 Pages: 604 My rating: 9/10 Like the Harry Potter series, Cixin Liu’s Three Body trilogy starts out with a small book, then bloats towards the end into an epic story … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Science fiction
Tagged Books, Cixin Liu, Death's End, Liu Cixin, review, science fiction, SF, The Dark Forest, The Three-Body Prolem, Three Body
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The ratio between movie reviews and book reviews.
I have been struggling with this since the conception of this blog. How do I make a blog about both movies and books without alienating people? Because I want to write about both. I love movies, and I love books, … Continue reading