What is this phenomenon that has your kids glued to your flat screen HD TV? If you have young ones around the teenage phase and perhaps younger, and even if you don’t, you’ve probably heard tell of a little something called High School Musical. You’ve probably wondered what the big deal was. If you’re not 13, it can be hard to figure out. But here’s the basic gist. It’s a TV movie produced by Disney, which you can probably watch just about every day courtesy of satellite TV. (more…)
BOTTOM LINE: Long winded and meandering while simultaneously melding dark dramatic sequences with stupid looking costumed superheroes, “Watchmen” is a mixed bag of strong themes, incredible visuals, overall mediocrity and silliness. (more…)
Another fabulous (literally ) movie comes to us from the Dreamworks factory, yet this one is way cooler than others! It’s a great life story, packed with ancient Chinese legends and wisdom. The furious five (Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Snake and Mantis) represent five of the most popular styles of Kung Fu.
Kung Fu panda is a hilarious comedy, which made all of us who watched it laugh to tears, and even review several times some parts of the movie. We thought that it’s going to be yet another American “parody of everything” with predictable jokes, but many instances caught us by surprise which made the feeling even better! (more…)
This is one of the very few books that I’ve read more than once in the last years, and there is a very good reason for that. It’s a book packed with adventures and seasoned with lots of facts and figures from the past, along with some myth and mysteries, that really involves you.
If you like the ecclesiastical thrillers (such as the Da Vinci Code, or the Bible Code), this book will most certainly get to you. Matilde Asensi seems to be a very informed writer, since everything in the book seems true, from the dirty laundry of the Vatican, through the tensions in Israel, Egypt or Turkey, to the Sicilian mafia, with all the ranks, place names and info that actually exist. Sometimes, foreign languages are used and translated throughout the book. These are the ancient Greek, Byzantine and Latin, the modern Greek, Italian, Arab… (more…)
) movie comes to us from the Dreamworks factory, yet this one is way cooler than others! It’s a great life story, packed with ancient Chinese legends and wisdom. The furious five (Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Snake and Mantis) represent five of the most popular styles of Kung Fu.
