The good.
Lots of edge-of-your-seat suspense, to the point that I could barely take it;
Brad Pitt does the most authentic Southern accent ever (I guess living in Louisiana with Angelina and the kids helped with that); He was also very entertaining and generally did a great job;
Brilliant acting all around;
Lots of clever dialog.
Never boring.
The bad.
Unspeakably violent. [...]
Also tagged culture, filmsThe new Star Trek movie is great. We don’t learn much about Earth of the future except that the fields of the Iowa countryside now have towering cities looming in the distance, and that there is a vast, militaristic government running everything. (some have suggested Star Trek portrays a fascist society)
The plot is made [...]
Ian Plimer’s new book on global warming, “Heaven and Earth,” comes out tomorrow. Paul Sheehan has read an advance copy and reviewed it in today’s SMH. Apparently, the book argues that global warming is a natural phenomenon, it isn’t caused by humans, and it’s nothing to be alarmed about. Sheehan writes, “The most important point [...]
Also tagged books, climate, global warming, ian plimer