Mat Brewster is a periodic ex-pat wondering if he'll ever find a home. You can find him musing on pop culture, and obsessing over concert bootlegs at The Midnight Cafe.
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This point was a brilliant maneuver by Doyle. Allowing the more human Dr. Watson to do much of the investigation himself allows the mystery time to develop rather than be solved immediately by Holmes.
I own somewhere around 600 hours of live music fitted on to over 400 disks. I have more than I could ever hope to listen to, yet as I sit here, I am already thinking of what I should download this evening.
They say Jackie Chan films are like pornos. The stories are flimsy, the acting atrocious, and everybody is waiting around until the action starts. If this is the case then Around the World in 80 Days is more like bad softcore porn you might catch on Showtime late Saturday night
All I could understand from her smiling lips was "vert," the French word for green. I quickly ran through a list of questions that could possibly contain the word green.
This is a powerful, moving film. Reading the boards on IMDB will attest to lives being changed through watching it.
I believe Olivier is a African Muslim like I believe Heston is a Mexican cop. But we suspend our disbelief and all that for the sake of the story.
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