I’m not much of a Brown fan. In fact, with the exception of the Da Vinci Code, he fails across the board (starting with the utter rubbish in Angels and Demons). Indeed, I am lenient as I don’t ask much except two things: wit and consistency within its own universe. Of the few Dan Brown [...]
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John Le Carre is no Ian Fleming just as George Smiley is no James Bond. Surely, both authors worked in British Intelligence during the Cold War. They both handled intelligence operations, handled agents and top secret information, set up informants and so on before they both turned to writing. Fleming writes in a rather captivating [...]
Arkady Balagan’s chess days are over following a decisive checkmate from the producer Showcase. Despite a fair popularity (as far as Canadian ratings are concerned), Showcase decided to slash Endgame. The campaign mounted by the fans in a bid to save the show only pulled a promise from Showcase to air the rest of season [...]
So what exactly do you do when you have a shitload of money and no ideas? Another remake of a famous movie (The Three Musketeers, a trademark of France)! And just to let people see how retarded you are, use the modern remake recipe: more boobs, more bullet time shots, more close-up shots, male actors [...]
Producing movies or TV series based on comics is hell. It is hell because comics have an incredibly huge and powerful community behind them. It is hell because it comprises characters with a rich and established history, spanning across realities, universes and story lines that are quite intricate and leave little margin to intervene creatively. [...]
1. The Event series ends with a bang. The plot to trim down Earth’s population and make room for Sophia’s aliens from their dying planet is foiled. President Martinez is reconfirmed at the White House while the vice-president’s plot is revealed to the whole cabinet. However, the alien portal works and eventually what seems to [...]
When Caprica ended, it was sad but didn’t feel like much of a big deal. I was sorry to lose such a great and complex story line, adorned with interesting intertwined characters. But in the end, they wrapped it up forcibly, crammed the last details to force the story to the conclusion we all expected. [...]
Endgame is a rather surprising product of the Canadian television industry. Although Canadian mystery stories lack the punch and grit of the British or the American action style, Endgame is endowed with a certain wit that plays well on the steps of previously known The Mentalist. In Endgame, we meet Arkady Balagan, former world chess [...]
Fostul mare folkist Victor Socaciu s-a trezit peste noapte ca vrea ca filmele straine sa fie dublate in limba romana. Stupiditatea ideii este prea mare si nu merita subliniata, dar de dragul discutiei, argumentele merita atinse (cu mentiunea ca aceasta sugestie mai fusese facuta in anii ‘90 si respinsa vehement). 1. Argument: “telespectatorul poate urmari [...]
CSI Miami: The weakest in the CSI franchise marked the end of it’s 8th season. Consistent with its reputation of being weak in script but with a great amount of “coolness”, the 8th season of CSI Miami ends with a suspenseful bang as always. In fact, if I were to note CSI Miami for anything, [...]
