Category Archives: The Chest Desire

The rise of the homo sapiens

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Arthur

The CBC will be broadcasting ‘Homo Sapiens: the rise of our species’ at 7:00 PM (EDT), as part of David Suzuki’s show ‘The Nature of Things’. According to the show’s description, ‘Homo Sapiens’, a part drama/part documentary, was produced by … Continue reading →

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8 MM

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this day, I decided to watch the movie ‘8MM’ (1999) again. The movie (directed by Joel Schumacher) stars Nicholas Cage and a whole set of other known actors, but the DVD credits fail to mention actress Amy Morton (who … Continue reading →

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The Island (2005)

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this weekend we watched ‘The Island’, a movie with so many (amazing) stunts and effects that it makes your head whirl. Quite an action movie: not flawless, but that’s why it’s called an action movie. Interesting to see a … Continue reading →

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Burnt Toast

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Arthur

I was near to falling asleep when tunes from (apparantly) a CBC show woke me up: Burnt Toast. It’s listed as a romantic comedy opera piece in 8 act, and it sports a list of comedians and opera singers in … Continue reading →

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New Tricks

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Arthur

Last night, while mindlessly switching channels, I ended up at the PBS (the US Public Broadcasting channel). The channel was showing a British series called ‘New Tricks’. If I’m not wrong, what I was watching may have been the very … Continue reading →

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Dark Water (and the kamikaze fly)

Posted on January 1, 2006 by Arthur

Hello 2006! Goodbye 2005! But not too fast: last night, we watched deux movies: Dark Water (2005) and Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1983). Dark Water (starring Jennifer Connelly) is an adaption of the Japanese movie ‘Honogurai Mizu No Soko … Continue reading →

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Yikes

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Arthur

Look! It’s a 21st century disaster movie1 wrecking havoc in Nova Scotia! Wait. Are those palm trees? The Day After Tomorrow (2004) (Frame around 00:43:41 ) 1 Reference to the 70s Hollywood disaster movies.

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All evil people go to NS

Posted on November 12, 2005 by Arthur

Just so you know: Evil people who do naughty things in New York always first go to Nova Scotia. I can think of many reasons why that is so: It’s in Canada It sounds like an exotic place It’d be … Continue reading →

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Old Tech in Science Fiction

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Arthur

It’s hard to make science fiction. Picture this: it’s 1980. You’re directing an episode of the Original Battlestar Galactica (which was then known as ‘Battlestar Galactica’ without the ‘Original’). Your main star is about to destroy a Cylon base. He … Continue reading →

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Rings and snafus

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Arthur

We watched both the Rings movies last night. We had seen ‘The Ring’ in the theatre before but decided to get and watch both of them. The ‘Ring 2’ does not even come close to its predecessor. First of all, … Continue reading →

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Phantom of the Opera

Posted on July 3, 2005 by Arthur

We watched Joel Schumacher’s “Phantom of the Opera” last night, a movie heavily inspired by the popular ‘Phantom of the Opera’ stage musical from the hand of Andrew Lloyd Webber. It includes all the songs that were part of that … Continue reading →

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Excal… IBUR!

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Arthur

Watching John Boorman’s movie ‘Excaliber’ last night, I ended up marking the scene above/left of this text to be one of the movie scenes of the Eighties. It’s not because of the movie itself: it is dark, highly artistic (the … Continue reading →

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Amsterdam CS

Posted on June 5, 2005 by Arthur

I‘ve been in Amsterdam so many times, and that sir, that’s no Amsterdam. We were watching ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ last night, to discover some pretty shots from Amsterdam and its canals. However, shots presumably taken at the Amsterdam Central Station, were … Continue reading →

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