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Passionate people have a tendency to pull you into their world, and hi-wire walker Philippe Petit is nothing if not passionate about his craft. Regardless of what you think of the world of high-risk spectacle stunts, you can’t help but admire at least some aspects of Petit. He knows what he wants out [...]
Quest for Fire is a bizarre little movie. On the surface, it seems to mimic ‘Call of the Wild’ or some other naturalist school of thought; yet if you look a little closer, there are elements which I can only classify as ‘Romantic’ (in the romantic era use of the word.)
When reading The Law of Nines, I have to admit I felt a bit lied to. I was promised a “stand alone modern novel” and ended up getting a novel that was: 1) very much a fantasy story and, 2) completely connected to Terry Goodkind’s other works. In fact, it’s more then connected, its [...] I feel I need to begin by saying something about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. First, Sherlock Holmes was never great literature; they were serial pulp stories for the 19th century. Purists who worry about this movie corrupting a great work of art….really shouldn’t. Second, the Sherlock stories weren’t actually very good mysteries (they were [...] |
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