Name: Tama
Dateline: Perth, Western Australia
Weblog: www.tamaleaver.net [RSS]
Articles: 36
First Published: Tuesday, July 8, 2003
Last Published: Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Currently listing articles 36-1:
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Battlestar Galactica Webisodes and The Tyranny of Digital Distance— The decision to restrict the webisodes to the US has annoyed international fans.
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Movie Review: Superman Returns, Reboots, and Resurrects— Overall, Singer does for Superman what he did for the X-Men: he's brought a fine film to the silver screen and ensured at least one
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Movie Review: X-Men: The Last Stand Disappoints— All in all, the weakest of the X-Men films by a long shot.
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Lucy's Story: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe— The strength of Narnia, however, like Lord of the Rings, is in the casting.
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Movie Review: Serenity: The Film, The Fans, The Politics & A Few Other Thoughts— Serenity offers a powerful metaphor for those struggling to maintain their rights and dignity in the face of a conservative right-wing political climate.
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Katrina: The Aftermath, The Politics & Citizen Media— "Not insurgents. Not refugees. Not enemies. Americans."
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Citizen Justice or Opening Pandora's Box?— So, while I commend Thao Nguyen for her quick thinking and wish her every luck in prosecuting the man who appears strongly to have abused
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HALO Films, Machinimation and beyond!— The Rock's gonna put the smackdown on your gaming ass!
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The Tyranny of Digital Distance— The tyranny of digital distance occurs when the geographic has been by and large supplanted by the digital ...
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What BattleStar Galactica Can Teach Doctor Who About Television In The Digital Age— ... something else seems to be setting Battlestar Galactica apart from other SF TV series, which is the fantastic online presence of the show's braintrust
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The Grey Video— Now the game is on again with the release of exceptionally slick, clever and enticing The Grey Video ...
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In My Father's Den— In My Father's Den is a brilliantly made, impeccably acted, majestically photographed film which tells a story you certainly won't forget any time soon.
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MTV, Machinima and the Second Coming of The Sims— ... just because MTV is remaking existing clips using these game engines, there is absolutely nothing suggesting that the viewer trying their hand at machinima
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I,WillBot, and Why the Network is Evil!— I've had a few days to process my conflicting responses to I,Robot, so this post will contain a quick response to the film and then
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Spider-Man 2: Life Under the Mask— Just as the first film did, Spider-Man 2 manages to make New York and her citizens a key character in their own right. Not
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Harry Potter and the Filming of Azkaban— Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the first of the Potter films which is actually a film in its own right rather than
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Politics The Day After Tomorrow— Unlike 99.9% of viewers, I was completely convinced that writer/director Roland Emmerich's previous global disaster film, Independence Day, was actually a satirical look at the
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Troy: It's, like, Totally Trojan!— I think the most surprising element of Troy is that Brad Pitt is Achilles.
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Van Helsing: CGI Mash-Up— Van Helsing is all flash, but it's very pretty to look at ...
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The Godsend Institute— Sounds like another Raelian cult or just too good to be true, doesn't it?
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Kill Bill vol. 2 ... sequels/second parts are never better!— And, yes, you do discover the Bride's real name during this film it's ...
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Elephant— Two misunderstood teenage boys clad in black gloves and military fatigues, carrying ominously large duffle bags filled to the brim, walk purposefully into your average
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Schindler's History— Just as Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ has issues of realism and history in film back in the spotlight, the tenth anniversary of
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The Violent Passion of The Christ— The Passion of The Christ relies on violence, violence and more violence to get an emotional response from the audience.
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Not Quite Sylvia— As others have commented, a script dealing with poets, giving them words to speak, needs to be beautiful and poetic in its own right. The
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Apple's 1984 Meets the iPod— Many people know about Apple's Ridley Scott-directed 1984 commerical, but very few people have seen it.
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Lost in Translation— Murray and Johansson are definitely Oscar contenders for their work on Lost in Translation and while Coppola might not have been in the trade long
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Ilium: Dan Simmons goes (Ancient) Greek!— Readers familiar with Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos will no doubt have been waiting with baited breath for his return to epic SF and his sizable
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Jane Campion's In The Cut, From Dark to Darker...
— Campion's never been one to shy away from big issues, so tackling desire 'realistically' has meant a take on desire, lust and maybe even love
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Get yourself to a cinema and Kill Bill … Vol. 1— The first line of Vol. 1 is David Carradine's "I bet I could fry an egg on your face right now, if I wanted to."
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Cypher— Cypher is directed by Vincenzo Natali, whose amazing previous film Cube proved you could make good science fiction with very few effects and even smaller
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Terminator 3: The Machines Rise and the Franchise Lives!— Terminator 3 is a well-made, explosive film that is completely dystopian and thus perfectly apt for the world we currently live in.
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Harry Potter 5, Contemporary Politics & Cultural Studies for Kids— Two things struck me most about this latest book: firstly, that it engages so directly with real world politics; and secondly, (building on the first
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and the emerging Ocean's Elite— George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind marks him not only as a talented director but also as an emerging Hollywood heavyweight worth
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Autofocus— ... a sexually overdosed biopic based on the story of Bob Crane’s life and scandalous death ...
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Charlies Angels: Full Throttle— ...
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