47 Ronin looks great. The costume design alone is rich, magical and utterly Oscar-worthy. But then, Bad Grandpa can also chuck “Academy Award nominated” on its marketing materials, and we’d all still know it’s rubbish. Same for this movie. It’s a semi-mystical “inspired-by-a-true-story” tale of a bunch of pompous, honor-bound, humorless Japanese folk who can…
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There were titters and guffaws in the Capetonian audience watching The Day the Earth Stood Still when it realised that an interstellar body with enough speed and size to anihilate the entire planet was heading for a direct impact with Manhattan Island. All 23 square miles of it. So here’s another little tip for Hollywood’s…
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I’m a crime novel junkie. I’ve read every Michael Connelly, every Harlan Coben, every Jeffrey Deaver and every James Lee Burke novel there is. Lee Burke’s main character is Detective Dave Robicheaux of New Iberia Parish in Louisiana, and you can virtually smell the bayou and the grilled crawfish and the pimples of sweat on…
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