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Bopping with Niall JP O'Leary
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- Author: nialloleary
- Listed in: Arts & Entertainment Visual Arts
- Tags: books Film science fiction fantasy horror james blish
- Added on: Oct 22nd, 2006
- Country: Ireland
- Language: English
The Bopper has returned to Ireland and is hungry to write about all he sees. Fasten your seatbelts, we may be in for a bumpy ride!
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
I think the poster says it all! What is that smell? Something stinks something rotten!One of those cult 80's movies, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", stars future Robocop, Peter Weller, as the titular scientist-neurosur...
Sticking My Nose In
What does John Malkovich wear on the end of his nose in 'The Libertine'? Such prosthetics have not been seen since Captain Hook's hook in 'Peter Pan'. Just a comment. ...
Valis
I finished (finally) Philip K. Dick's 'Valis' last Sunday. I respect his work too much not to finish one of his books, but it is a tough read. Certainly there is a lot of esoteric Gnostic thought, a lot of hare-brained cosmology, and a lot of the u...
Obssessive about 'Vertigo'
Jimmy Stewart falls for Kim Novak in 'Vertigo'Switched on the telly and saw that 'Vertigo' was just starting. I just had to keep on watching for the millionth time. After all there is a reason why it figures so frequently at the top of critics' lis...
Stardust Memories
Though not nearly as funny as 'Annie Hall', or as coherent as 'Manhattan', Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories' is very much of a piece with those two movies. The story, such as it is, concerns a filmmaker, Sandy Bates (as usual, not very dissimilar to...
