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There aren’t many actors around in the world that leave you with a warm feeling inside and a fixed gaze upon the character portrayed. In amongst the Golden years of cinema, there was such an actor who was known around the studios, rehearsal rooms and coffee bars alleyways in Los Angeles as Mr Nice Guy. Read the rest of this entry »

‘El Maquinista’ is a movie about a man whose subconscious keeps making him thinner and thinner. While he committed a terrible crime, he is unable to see himself as a criminal; in fact, he does not remember the fact that he committed a terrible crime. However, deep inside his memory remembers his crime, and this drives him to make him thinner and thinner so that he can physically remove his existence in time. ‘El Maquinista’ is apparently heavily influenced by Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. As a matter of fact, quite a few specific similarities between ‘El Maquinista’ and ‘Crime and Punishment’ are found. Read the rest of this entry »

America’s Next Top Model is a show that does not get the proper respect that it deserves. Tyra Banks hosts a solid and inspiring TV show that really makes you understand exactly what the world of modeling is all about. What I don’t like is how people tend to look down on this spectacular show. Why do they dislike it? Why do they write it off before seeing it? The problem is, of course, the way we view models in our society: we think they are dumb. Or course, some are. But, we like to think of models as two dimensional beings, and we don’t see the need to watch them do anything but pose. So, by some weird extension we subconsciously believe that America’s Next Top Model won’t be a good show. But it is. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent article at BuddyTv got me thinking: is NBC’s mega Successful new series HEROES a stroke of genius, or an untapped vein in a very old gold-mine. The piece, “Heroes: What Took So Long?” attributed the success of Heroes to an evolution of the super-hero mythology, from the nuclear-age wonders of Marvel in their spandex and futuristic stealth planes, to the grungy streets of New York were heroin addled comic artists unwittingly tell the future, and crooked politicians suppress their ability to fly. Read the rest of this entry »