Book Review: Company – Max Barry
Company by Max Barry is set in a milieu that I love to explore, the corporate office world. It’s full of office politics; the mundane and the ambiguous. I’ve often been fascinated with the world. And...
View ArticleMovie Review: 'Capitalism: A Love Story'
Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, gets to the heart of the problems touched upon in his other movies and talks about the whole system. Capitalism: A Love Story, whilst...
View ArticleBest of 2009: Books, Albums, and Movies
As December brings 2009 to a close, I was thinking I wanted to dedicate some of my blogging time this month to summing up the highlights of 2009 in the various areas this blog discusses. So, there’ll...
View ArticleMovie Review: Avatar 3D
Anything that right-wingers like Miranda Devine attack as leftist propaganda is usually good in my books. And James Cameron’s Avatar is one of the best left-wing films I’ve seen, using awesome special...
View ArticleTV Series Review: Dead Set
Watching British TV series Dead Set in two days this week, I really enjoyed this original twist on the zombie genre, adapting it to today in the age of reality TV as well as providing a strong example...
View ArticleBook Review: The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
After finishing Christos Tsiolkas’ powerful novel, The Slap last night, I’m left wondering whether I need to leave more time for it all to sink in. The Slap is confronting and deep, full of...
View ArticleMovie Review: American History X
American History X is a confronting movie dealing with American neo-Nazis, but beyond the violence and disturbing element that the movie is known for, I found it actually has quite deep character...
View ArticleBook Review: The City and The City – China Mieville
The City and The City is definitely the most amazing novel I’ve read this year but that sounds a bit grandiose because I haven’t read much this year. Anyhow, it blew me away with how rich it was and...
View ArticleMovie Review: Daybreakers
Daybreakers bucks the trend of modern day Vampire film with a nod to science fiction whilst going back to the dark and sinister. The first thing you notice about Daybreakers is the dark and stylised...
View ArticleBloggers, writers and 'negative' reviews
There has been some renewed debate in the blogosphere around writers writing negative reviews, and as with all debates and questions out there, I thought I’d offer a few points of my own following on...
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