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Surprisingly gory

Posted : 5 months ago on 28 March 2008 06:22 (A review of RoboCop)

I saw this movie around 18 years ago and then again, just recently. It's aged surprisingly well, despite the clunky, stop frame robot animation. The plot is pretty good, there's plenty of blood and gore (including a guy with his skin melting off his body) and crucially, not too much reliance on CG effects. I did not remember all the blood and gore. This movie is definitely not for kids younger than 13.

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Umm....

Posted : 5 months ago on 25 March 2008 07:24 (A review of Bad Guy)

Kim Ki Duk loves to mess with his audience's head and he's in great form here. The movie follows the relationship between a girl and the her pimp who is also the one that forced her into prostitution. That's just scratching the surface of this twisted tale.

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Classic yet fresh, always.

Posted : 5 months, 1 week ago on 23 March 2008 03:05 (A review of Mothership 2CD/1DVD)

Led Zeppelin release another compilation album and it comes in at a hefty 24 tracks. It reflects their quality that all the included tracks are brilliant yet they still don't cover the whole breadth of their catalogue. Most bands don't have 24 good songs in their entire careers.

The clear selling point for this compilation is the new remastering. The improvement in quality is subtle and incremental. The last remastering of all their albums (I own that box set too) was a major jump forward in quality. The DVD contains some awesome live material as well.

A definite great buy for old fans and for new fans looking for one set that covers plenty of territory.

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Defies categorization into a neat genre

Posted : 5 months, 1 week ago on 23 March 2008 10:44 (A review of Postcards)

Generally patterned along the excellent 'Molinos', the band's signature (if you can call it that) is intact here. They play a mix of celtic tinged folk rock along with bluegrass and even a couple of Spanish songs! The lead vocalist Tom Landa grew up in Mexico, which explains that little mystery. The band's playing is top notch again.

The most amazing thing about their music is that all the experimentation and fusion of musical styles never comes across as forced. Everything feels organic and natural and the album flows really well from one song to the next. Tom Landa's voice has something to do with it, no doubt.

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Soul diva

Posted : 5 months, 1 week ago on 23 March 2008 09:53 (A review of Rockferry)

No doubt about it, Duffy has the kind of voice that feels like she's singing from the depths of her soul. Maybe that's why they call it soul music. Wonderful debut, I wonder where she will go from here.

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Celtic folk rock/pop band from Canada

Posted : 5 months, 1 week ago on 23 March 2008 09:48 (A review of Molinos)

I heard these guys in concert a few days ago on St Patrick's Day and was really impressed. I bought this CD at the venue and I'm not kicking myself for doing it. It's an excellent album, ranging from folk rock with Celtic flourishes to all out Irish stomps. The band's playing is top notch and the vocalist Tom Landa keeps it all together very well.

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Definitive biography of Gandhi

Posted : 5 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 04:00 (A review of Gandhi)

The definitive movie on the leader of modern India's movement to gain independence from British rule comes from ..... you guessed it, a Britisher.

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Not one of the better Bond movies

Posted : 5 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 03:58 (A review of Octopussy)

In the sequence where Bond flies in his helicopter, the manage to squeeze buildings from three different Indian cities into one strange concoction of a city. Well, Bond movies don't usually have too much commonsense anyway.

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Dumb

Posted : 5 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 03:57 (A review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)

Pathetically stupid portrayal of India. After looking at the script, the Indian govt wouldn't let Spielberg shoot in India. So he shot the movie in Sri Lanka. Amrish Puri must have sold his sould to devil when agreed to star in this dumb movie.

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Is this the same movie I remember?

Posted : 5 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 03:42 (A review of Ice Castles)

I saw this when I was 8 or 9 and came away rather impressed. Two decades on, I'm not that impressed. Still, mildly entertaining in parts, though I used the fast forward button liberally in others.

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