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The Snow Ghost - Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This was a much needed read, perfectly suited to the short days and long dark nights.
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories, most dating from the late 19th Century and early 20th, they demonstrate the hold the dead have over the living, the power to kill, vindictive, violent, vengeful, no pale shades half-seen in a graveyard, or ghosts walking in abandoned temples, these are full-on malevolent demons, fairies, spirits, that can interact in ways with the living that the Western Tradition generally doesn't allow.
So worthwhile....
(My other books, I mean Shopenhauer, Jack Kerouac, US Anderson, too many more to list, they've rather stalled on me)
Wrath of Man - Guy Ritchie
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Guy Ritchie has lost his touch in a big way. A silly gangsta movie (all his movies are), but this one without style or substance.
The success of "John Wick" has brought everyone on board the revenge fantasies; only some do it better than others. This was a rather style-less interpretation and even the wooden performance by Jason Statham didn't save it.
Bad Sequels - Drishyam 2 & Nobody 2
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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These were both a complete and utter waste of time. "Drishyam 2" was about the cops reopening the investigation into events 7 years prior. Again, portrayed as corrupt and bungling, but a clever Inspector General thinks he has Vijay only to discover that Vijay, yet again, for an uneducated theatre owner has picked up a surprising number of tricks from the movies he watches.
Funny, how they break from speaking in Hindi to sarcastically utter in perfect English a phrase that obviously everyone knows.
And "Nobody 2" - I mean, if you went to see it you probably enjoyed it, but - again, a pretty hard "NO", just a little too silly. 1 was 1 too many, two is two too many.
Wild Beaver/Beaver Bombing
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The Good-News link of the day; Wild Beaver returns to Norfolk.
It's been so long since I've seen a beaver it's not funny, and this made me tear up a bit. Especially the bit about "Beaver-Bombing".
I need a beaver bomb.
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