Name: Hugh Ruppersburg
Dateline: Athens, Georgia
Weblog: oldsmiley.blogspot.com
Articles: 21
First Published: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Currently listing articles 21-1:
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Movie Review: I Am Legend— Will Smith’s acting and images of an empty New York City make I Am Legend worthwhile.
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Book Review: It Wasn’t All Dancing and Other Stories by Mary Ward Brown— In the carefully written stories of It Wasn't All Dancing, Mary Ward Brown illuminates themes of change, isolation, and uncertainty.
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Movie Review: Beowulf— The film Beowulf, an adaptation of the epic poem, is a significant missed opportunity.
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Book Review: Tongues of Flame by Mary Ward Brown— The seamless, carefully wrought stories illuminate the lives of individuals struggling with limiting and changing circumstances.
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Movie Review: 300— 300 is a bigoted, small-minded, short-sighted, shallow spectacle and little else.
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Book Review: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace— A surprisingly warm and engaging story about two people falling in love and struggling to survive in post-apocalyptic America.
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Movie Review: The Good German— The Good German is a suspenseful post-WWII noir that implicates Americans, Russians, and Germans alike in wartime horrors.
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Movie Review: Canyon Passage— Dramatic cinematography, compromised characters, Hoagy Carmichael, and a variety of themes and plots keep Canyon Passage interesting.
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Book Review: Falling Man by Don DeLillo— In Falling Man Don DeLillo considers the September 11 attacks by focusing on individuals caught up in the calamity.
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Book Review: A Distant Flame by Philip Lee Williams— A novel of war, love, and memory: an old man struggles with his life's meaning.
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Book Review: Uncertainty - Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley— David Lindley’s Uncertainty provides a highly readable account of the uncertainty principle and the scientists involved in its discovery.
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DVD Review: Scoop— Woody Allen's latest is a slight, ephemeral comedy that begins with the unlikely appearance of a ghost and ends with the solution to a murder.
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Movie Review: The Illusionist— The Illusionist is all surface, but it is entertaining in the best sense of the word.
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Movie Review: Martin Scorsese’s The Departed— Crime, violence, corruption, and broken American ideals loom at the heart of The Departed, the new film by Martin Scorsese.
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Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy— Set in a post-apocalyptic world, The Road is an environmental parable, an ecological novel where ecology no longer exists.
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Movie Review: Shopgirl— Shopgirl is a quiet film and perhaps a small one, but it offers a deep understanding and appreciation of human character.
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Book Review: A Killing Fever by Robert Cooperman— The poems in Robert Cooperman's A Killing Fever tell a tale of violence, love, and bloody retribution.
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Movie Review: Murray Lerner's Festival— Festival is a powerful record of the Newport Folk Festival and the folk movement of the 1960s.
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Book Review: The Celestial Jukebox by Cynthia Shearer— This novel celebrates and explores the multicultural American South. It's a wonderful study in human character.
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Movie Review: The Wicker Man and the Wicked Woman— The Wicker Man remake is implausible in every way, and its attacks on women and others are disturbing.
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Music Review: Bob Dylan - Modern Times— Modern Times, Bob Dylan's powerful new album, expresses estrangement from the modern world and a pervasive yearning — for love, acceptance, and salvation.
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