December 2009
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Movie review: Avatar Imax 3D
When I heard that James Cameron was talking about Avatar as “raising the bar” for all other movies I thought it was one of the biggest blowhard lines in history. Pshaw. Hooey. Turns out I was wrong. This movie deserves to be a critical and box office success. With the release of Avatar in Imax 3D Cameron has significantly expanded the boundaries for what film-makers can do, not just...
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Brotherly love
Not long ago I went to watch a college football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - the city of brotherly love - which is about an hour 20 minute train-ride from Manhattan. I’m always keen to explore and observe the natives in their natural environment. It turns out college football is bIIIIg business, with many people preferring it to the NFL because the professional sport is so structured...
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White mischief in Manhattan
So the temperature had been plummeting all day (it’s amazing the temperature variations between days here, sometimes 15’ Celsius) and in the afternoon it started snowing. Well I’ve been in snow before - on a mountain, which seems like the natural place for it - but seeing snow swirling down in a kaleidoscope of wind driven patterns against a backdrop of skyscrapers and five-story...