Tag: critic
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May 29, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
My resident critic is beside me to say,
My time on Gather, she thinks, is play.
She barks commands, "Mom, rise from your chair!"
The back yard, the outdoors, she'd rather be there.
She . . .
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January 01, 2008 11:46 PM EST --
BE WARNED: THIS IS NOT A WAR MOVIE!!
My husband and I were away for the weekend and decided to go see a movie. Thinking this movie 'No country for Old Men' was a war movie - not . . .
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February 05, 2009 02:23 PM EST --
Hello Gather(ers). I just wanted to post to let all of you who care know, I will no longer be able to write my column of movie reviews, ONE HARSH CRITIC. Thanks to all of you who read and commented. I . . .
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January 31, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
Two hours is a long time to keep an audience's attention, and so many films fail to do so, but director Joseph Ruben seems to have stumbled upon some secret attention-grabbing element . . .
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October 11, 2009 10:05 PM EDT --
You live your lives by an unwritten code and expect everyone to fit the mold. You set the heights for others to teach and then you forget that we're all not 6'6". I'm supposed to be married . . .
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February 21, 2009 08:35 PM EST --
I cashed out for 2 $25 gift certificates for Restaurant.com this week and used one of them this afternoon for a local Mexican restaurant called Los Quatro Amigos.
It's been a while since we've . . .
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September 20, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
I'm always trying to unite the critical faculty with the poetic one, but they're not easily seduced by each other, often preferring opposite sides of the bed. It's too bad criticism's a . . .
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October 04, 2009 10:19 AM EDT --
A conflict often arose in my mind regarding the role of writers in the society. Does the writer influence the mind-sets, or does he mold his writing to the tastes of the majority of the members . . .
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November 03, 2009 02:59 PM EST --
This movie is about a robot who learns what it means to be human. His scientist/inventor father creates him to replace the real son that he lost. Unfortunately, he finds him lacking as a replacement . . .
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June 12, 2006 11:44 AM EDT --
When the pen touches
The empty page
A spark
Fluid life leaves its
Slug slime mark
The iridescence
Like the sun reflecting
Off of black ice
That deadly occurance
What's more is the poison
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May 15, 2007 01:23 AM EDT --
Fracture: A Review
Thrillers are great. I admit that I'm a thriller guy. Therefore, I give thrillers a bit more leniency than I do films of other genres. But, even so, I liked Fracture. . . .
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April 07, 2008 06:16 AM EDT --
If you missed this one at the box office, don't bother renting it on DVD.
The reviews I had read for this film were so good that I actually went to the theatre to see it, and even taking into . . .
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September 22, 2009 03:06 PM EDT --
My husband and I went to see a movie on his day off yesterday. We decided to go see 9 (it was between that or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.) It was certainly interesting. I thought . . .
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April 19, 2008 04:40 PM EDT --
I just was hit by this snippet a few minutes ago. It's a variation on the other one that I posted yesterday.
Every line in its place
One at a time
If one should be out of place
It'd . . .
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March 23, 2006 02:16 AM EST --
I came across the essay below when doing research on how after a brain injury survivors need to relearn social skills. Developing strategies to deal with condescending or confrontational people without . . .
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January 13, 2007 03:12 PM EST --
Sometimes we blur so much the reflection in the mirror - to the point of obscuring it to a truly distorted image - that only someone else can show us what we truly look like.
That's what Sacha . . .
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December 08, 2008 10:44 AM EST --
And telling his critics to have patience, or take a deep breath just isn't going to work. I will probably be one of Obama's Harshest critics the next four years, ok, so turn around is fair . . .
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February 12, 2007 02:41 AM EST --
Hannibal Lecter may be the most intriguing villain to appear on screen. There, I said it. But that statement should be nothing new. Lecter's wisdom and ability to read people along with . . .
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March 26, 2007 01:42 AM EDT --
The Hills Have Eyes 2: A Review
I am the smartest man alive!
Well, maybe that’s not exactly true. I barely got into a state college. But after seeing The Hills Have Eyes . . .
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July 20, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor. He has taught at Harvard and elsewhere, and is now a professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Staines . . .
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