Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
After I read John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany (which is an outstanding read) several years ago, I went on an Irving reading rampage; I stopped because though the writing was exquisite, the...
Category: Movies
The Lightning Thief – Movie vs. Book
The movie The Lightning Thief, has excellent special effects (Hades in the fire and looking like an old rock musician is well done) and tells the story of Percy Jackson, half human, half Olympian...
Mandela + Rugby = Invictus
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Dan Brown attempts to do for Washington D.C. and the Masons what he did for Paris, Rome and the organizations such as Opus Dei from The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons. As usual,...
District 9 – Four movies in one
Watching District 9 with my 18 year old this weekend and observing how is interest level changed made us realize that the movie is four movies in one. He was interested in some parts,...
Chocolate (the martial arts movie, not the candy)
The same director and martial arts choreographer who did Tony Jaa’s Ong-Bak and Tom-Yum-Goong worked on this 2008 Thai film, which, like Ong-Bak has a sometimes difficult to follow plot, great fighting stunts and...
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Only a small number of Seńor Zafon’s books have be translated into English, including this latest one. The translator, Lucia Graves, must be given due credit for making Zafon’s writing as enjoyable in English...
Ong Bak 2 with Tony Jaa
A good martial arts movie doesn’t need subtitles or bad English dubbing to be enjoyed! Martial arts movies can be campy or classy, too much wire or too much blood, short on story and...
Mine and my son’s most anticipated movie of 2009
Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2 After Ong Bak, then The Protector, we’ve been waiting for the next from muay thai martial arts expert Tony Jaa. Already released in December in Thailand, Ong Bak...