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Daily Archives: May 2nd, 2008

Miami Vice

Okay, this was a bad movie. I mean, I was prepared for it to be bad, but not bad. Gorgeously shot and heavy on atmosphere, pretty much everything else disappoints (and that’s not easy to do when you have Michael Mann directing and Gong Li in the cast). I don’t make a point of trying [...]

The Terror

Dan Simmons, who seems to be able to write anything, and write it very well, has produced a beautifully flowing novel that combines historical fact with a good dollop of fantasy/horror. The base of the story is formed around the mystery of what happened to Captain John Franklin’s “Lost Expedition” back in the late 1840s. [...]