The Oscar Night Awards is approaching and this year, nine movies have been nominated for Best Picture. I hope to have the time (and the mood, as a matter of fact) to review them all here. When I started this blog, I thought at old, indie, artie, not box office. That was true until The Hunger Games. After talking my mind a little, I continued with all kind of movies. I said in previous post that I haven't seen Argo, yet. I've seen the Best Picture nominees and more. There are some movies I'm not … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
After a Long Absence
I'm reading The Inheritance of Loss, the 2006 Man Booker Prize receiver, by Kiran Desai, and I was almost shocked by the phrase below. After the initial excitement was over, it often became obvious that the love was gone; for affection was only a habit after all, and people, they forgot, or they became accustomed to its absence. It was a coincidence, but it's more than true, and that was not the only truth revealed in that book. The quote refers to the reunion with your family or friends … [Read more...]
Rome – The Series
The series created by HBO, primarily chronicles the lives and deeds of two common men: Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, two Roman soldiers mentioned historically in Caesar's De Bello Gallico. The fictionalized Vorenus and Pullo manage to witness and often influence many of the historical events presented, of which not all are accurate. Only two seasons were made, the first season depicts Julius Caesar's civil war of 49 BC against the traditionalist conservative faction in the Roman Senate, his … [Read more...]
Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards
This is the list from the prestigious site of The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, the official one, which is less glamorous as is all business. The nominees have still a lot of work to pimp themselves between them, because often, the Oscars were full of surprises. I present here the complete version, out of respect for all people involved. They deserve our consideration for their tireless efforts to fulfill everybody's expectations. Actor in a Leading Role Bradley … [Read more...]
The Columnist
I was waiting for a certain guest post on this category I so affected proclaimed that I hate :). Oh, but it's plenty to fill the page on this. I could have put this in Life or even in Art, but I'm not digesting the book written so witty by Belén Fernández, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work. I want to talk about this Friedman character, Pulitzer Prize winner, author, journalist and columnist. The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work is a take-down of the three-time … [Read more...]
Guns Ban
Sometimes I hate to write here. I'm bored to death of Assange's picture on my home page, and of Assange in general. I was one of the guys who believed in the deplorable Wikileaks. I still believe in a free press, a free word and ideas trading. I believe in a free world. But as my wonderful partner use to say, "world doesn't want to be free". I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I only try to see the shadows. Very little things happens without a reason. Media is a dangerous instrument. … [Read more...]
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