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“The Hobbit”: An Unexpectedly Disappointing Journey
I can’t decide if the motivating force behind Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is hubris or greed.
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‘Dreamers of the Day’ Educates and Excites Readers
Authors keep doing innovative things to surprise and delight. Now it is Mary Doria Russell’s Dreamers of the Day that includes T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) and Winston Churchill as living, breathing characters.
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“Lincoln”: The Performance of a Lifetime
The first thing you must know about Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is that in the title role Daniel Day-Lewis gives the performance of a lifetime.
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A Struggle for Survival: Lost in the Atlantic
When I first came across this novel I was intrigued by the idea of the struggle for survival by passengers who made it into lifeboats after a big passenger liner sunk in the Atlantic.
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“Flight”: A Sky-High Adventure
Whip, a pilot constantly looking for substances to get even higher, finds himself crashing quickly.
