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Reviewed Finding Neverland Movie

Neverland Revealed

If you go to my blog and look at my profile you'll notice under movies that I say anything with Viggo Mortensen and Johnny Depp. So there was never any question of whether or not I was going to be seeing Finding Neverland. In brief the movie deals with the story behind the creation of the pla...Read more

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Reviewed Taruff de Haduks - Band of Gypsys

Passion and Spirit

If you've seen the movie The Man Who Cried with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci then you've seen Taruf de Haduks. They are the gypsy band who plays throughout the movie. They also happen to be one of Johnny Depp's favorite bands. It was this movie that introduced me to their wild passionate soun...Read more

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Reviewed Merchant of Venice Movie

At long last, a Merchent worth seeing

Shakespeare's The Merchent of Venice is one of his least performed plays these days because it rasises the ugly issue of Anti Semitism. No one has the nerve to deal with the issue head on it seems any more. Well finally someone has come up with the perfect antidote. The latest adaptation, starri...Read more

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Commented on meenakshi74's review

Short-changed? Not quite
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich

While I enjoyed reading about the book itself, I wonder if you may have missed the point of it. It doesn't matter what the author did or didn't do to alleviate her life during this period, as you rightly mention this was only temporary, so her not getting a roommate or going to a church for aid ar...e not things for us to judge. The intent of the book, I believe from reading your review, was to illustrate how horrible existance is for so many people in the United States. I would think the author's complaints about her life would only serve to illustrate their difficulties not reflect on her own attitude. Aside from that, I think your review was good in that outlined what the author did and the process she used without going into the nitty gritty details. Unfortunately I don't think I need or want to read the book, I pretty much live that experience except that I live in Canada and have a version of National Health, and other supports Americans lack. I think its important for the rest of the world to realize that America is the only so-called developed country that has no universally funded health care program for its people. Everything is almost completly run by private insurance companies and to get any decent medical attention costs a fortune. The cost of pharmasuticals is astronomical, and no medical plans cover that, so even if you have medical insurance you could go bankrupt paying for your drugs if your sick. Sorry I'll stop now, but this sounds like a book that should be read by anybody who wants to understand what life is like in the U.S. for the majority of people. They treat their own poor as badly as do the rest of the world's. cheers gypsymanRead More

Reviewed Armies of Hanuman - Ashok Banker

Just Keeps On Getting Better

In this the fourth book of Ashok Banker's retelling of the Ramayana we are reunited with our characters 13 years from the date we left them beginning their fourteen year exile. Rama, his wife Sita and his brother Lakshman along have fought alongside a motley band of outcast and outlaws against t...Read more

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Reviewed Blogger

A Blog of my own

Blogger.com has been like coming up for air to a drowning man. For the last couple of years I have been struggling with writing: just not having a way to do it enough outside of my creative projects. With Blogger.com I have been liberated from the constraints of format and plot to write freely f...Read more

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Commented on butterscotch's review

A young girl's world.
Malory Towers - Enid Blyton

Since I was reading Enid Blyton's books some 35 years ago I was wondering if this was new? You wrote a really good review by the way, clear and to the point, which is the best thing to do. I think it's great that people are still reading the same authors that I was reading when I was a kid It se...ems that it's only over here in North America that kids don't read anymore, I find that so sad that so many young people are missing out on using their imaginations and are becomining more and more dependant on being spoon fed by television. Keep on enjoying going to the library and being thrilled by books cheers gypsymanRead More

Reviewed Favourite Books Of Childhood

When I was six

The title should give you the clue that I was a big fan of A.A. Milne when I was a kid. Winnie and his gang were just too cool. Come to think of it the majority of my reading then was centred around animals. There were the classics, Paddington, Black Beauty, I even picked up Arthur Ransom's Swal...Read more

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Reviewed Chasing Amy Movie

Not your average date movie

In the mid to late nineties Kevin Smith wrote and directed a series of inter-connected movies centred around the lives of twenty-something’s coming of age in New Jersey. By far the most serious and complex of these movies was Chasing Amy. After his initial cult hit Clerks was followed by t...Read more

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Reviewed Frida Movie

Portrait of a Master

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican Artist who painted from the 1930s through to her death in the 1950s. Famed for her self explorations on canvass, and explosive lifestyle she had long been ignored by the main stream of art. In fact North Americans have been far too dismissive of any work done ''south of...Read more

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Reviewed Viggo Mortensen

An Artist for All Seasons

For most of us our introduction to Viggo Mortensen came via the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. His portrayal of Aragorn will undoubtedly be forever engraved in the memories of all fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Ironically enough those were not the first movies I had seen him in, but it w...Read more

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Commented on crazyplaywright's review

Grab it with both hands
Vertigo - Ashok Banker

Well as a representative of the North American contingent, I would like to express my appreciation for your review. I have just discovered Ashok through the first three volumes of the Rama epic(I hate to tell you but volume four comes out here first... go figure)and so am grateful for information on... any of his other works. I periodicly check out his blog, www.indianenglish.blogspot.com, because he frequently posts older short stories. Of chourse these only serve to whet the appetite for more of his work. Good review by the way, it gives the reader a good understanding of what faces the character and whether or not it's a topic you want to read about. I don't care one way or another in this type of story whether the plot or ending are revealed, because they are secondary to how the story is told. cheers gypsymanRead More

Reviewed Girl with a Pearl Earring Movie

Artist and Model

Living in a small town like I do in order to see what are considered less then blockbuster category movies I have to wait for their release on D.V.D. The Girl With The Pearl Earring was a movie that I had been wanting to see for a number of reasons. Foremost was the fact that Colin Firth would b...Read more

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Reviewed Prince of Ayodhya, The - Ashok Banker

Taste Of Curry

I can't think of a greater delight then the discovery of an author previously unknown. In the last few months I've been fortunate to discover four such wonders. Even better, as far as I was concerned, was that each of them have published either a continuing series of books or a completed series,...Read more

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