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Time to return to one of my favorite topics, which is Japan, and the era of samurai. Can we? IKIMASHO! 😀 “Akō incident” (赤穂事件, Akō jiken) is one of those famous events that remain recorded in (not only Japanese, but world) history. The story of honor and loyalty of the 47 ronin, even at…
Justice League Snydercut Should you watch the Zack Snyder version of “Justice League” (Director’s Cut, popularly known as “Snyder Cut” or #snydercut) if you’ve already watched the theatrical version from 2017? Yes. Should you watch the Zack Snyder version of “Justice League” if you haven’t watched the theatrical version from 2017 before? Yes. Should you…
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman is always a welcome guest on this blog. So far we’ve hung out with him through his classic “American Gods” and the incredibly fun “Norse Mythology.” But now we’re going to, for a change, dive into an unusually fairy-tale-like (and slightly twisted) world… whose plot mostly takes place in a…
Fahrenheit 451 When I finished reading Ray Bradbury’s book, “Fahrenheit 451,” I wasn’t sure I could, like many, so easily award it the flattering title “masterpiece of the 20th century.” Does that mean the book is bad? Far from it! But for you to award a book such a title, several conditions need to be…
Goodbye Somehow the novel “Goodbye” has quite an appropriate title for the first (reviewed) novel for 2021… a nice, subtle and cultured farewell sentence for 2020 (though we surely said goodbye to it much worse in our thoughts :D). And that’s where my comments about 2020 will remain… The novel “Goodbye” by Živojin Petrović was…
Dr.No Writing about James Bond outside the context of films would be a pretty thankless job (or rather would require a special text). So I wouldn’t want to waste much space here. I don’t believe anyone expected that the film “Dr. No,” which even for that era (the sixties) was made quite cheaply, would spawn…
Taken 3 “Taken 3” is a victim of the previous part, from which the audience expected a lot (since the first part delighted the audience). If the second part hadn’t happened (which was quite disappointing after the standard the first part set), the third part of Bryan Mills’ adventures would certainly have fared much better…
Taken 2 Bryan Mills’ life is trying to return to normal after everything that happened in the first film “Taken”… which will certainly require effort. Bryan tries to normalize relationships with his daughter Kim (who’s struggling to pass her driving test, and also has difficulty telling her father she now has a boyfriend) and his…
American Gods Next year it will be exactly 20 years since Neil Gaiman’s American Gods first appeared, a book that very quickly became an instant classic. It swept up every major award you can sweep up in the realms of sci-fi and fantasy (Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Bram Stoker…), and it’s been showered with top ratings…