Kari Niel

Kari Niel
Location
London, England
Birthday
May 03

MY RECENT POSTS

MAY 3, 2010 3:05AM

Knowing

Knowing is a classic case of a movie that is crammed with interesting ideas but is unable to conceptualize them in a compelling fashion. Knowing doesn’t fail because of a lack of ambition or scope but because of flaws in execution. The movie tries to accomplish a lot of things, butRead full post »

MAY 3, 2010 2:59AM

G. I. Joe The Rise Of Cobra

I have very fond memories of my childhood, thanks to my active imagination, my bedroom transformed into Eternia, Tatooine, Cybertron, Arus, Doom or The Pit depending on the day.
Yes, Star Wars, Transformers, He-Man, Voltron and G.I. Joe.
In the last 10 years, we’ve seen some really cool… Read full post »

APRIL 11, 2010 7:09AM

Drag Me To Hell

“Drag Me to Hell” is a true bubble gum horror movie — safe, vapid, fun and uniquely American. It was of course directed by Sam Raimi, whose name became synonymous with horror once “Evil Dead 2″ was released in the mid-1980s. Even though he hadn’t made any hRead full post »

FEBRUARY 4, 2010 6:49AM

BRUNO

 

You can make jokes about Hitler. You can strut around Jerusalem in hot pants and fake Hassidic curls. You can make a pitch for an American TV show with a slot called ‘Keep it. Or Abort It! But, whatever you do, don’t you dare make a gag about Michael… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 5, 2009 8:18AM

Antichrist


Acclaimed Danish Director, Lars Von Trier, has melded art house and horror together with staggering effect in Antichrist. It’s the tail, told in four chapters, of an unnamed couple (“He” played by Willem Defoe and “She” played by Charlotte Gainsbourg), as they go through/

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OCTOBER 23, 2009 7:44AM

Watchmen


I read this graphic novel, Watchmen, in 1986. I have hoped this story would eventually make the silver screen since that moment in time. It would have been impossible a decade ago to create a movie which would require the level of CGI to bring forth the vision of Moore to the screen. I went/

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 8:13AM

Inglorious Basterds


Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, the long-awaited Inglorious Basterds, is here, and with it comes mighty expectations from his fan boys. Unfortunately, Basterds is Tarantino’s weakest film to date – though that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Well-written and expertly crafted,/

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 7:43AM

Terminator: Salvation


The fourth installment of the Terminator Series: Terminator Salvation is a film that grows on you instead of striking an instant chord with the audiences unlike The Terminator (1984) and Judgment Day (1991), reason being its script. The previous blockbusters had those trademark face-offs and one-on-o

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 4:51AM

The Fox And The Child


ANIMALS are often depicted onscreen as four-legged versions of us. In the 1950s, when Disney first ventured into nature films, the creatures it photographed in the wild were assigned the same characteristics as the perky kids and put-upon parents of its domestic comedies.
Frenchman Luc Jacquet, direc/

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 7:50AM

THE PROPOSAL


Blame the heels. In her new movie, “The Proposal,â€Â Sandra Bullock, playing a Type A (rhymes with) witch, totters around in a pair of exquisite high heels, the kind that elongate the legs and give a woman’s derrière the gentle backward thrust familiar from fertility figurines. The character,/

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 7:18AM

Public Enemies


It’s no secret how the life of John Dillinger came to an end; so when Michael Mann begins his telling of the Dillinger story in 1933 only allowing for just over a year’s worth of story to be told he isn’t giving himself a lot of time. However, in a matter

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 7:11AM

I Love you, Beth Cooper


Let’s start this review off right. I Love You, Beth Cooper is the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen of comedies. If you’ve read my Revenge of the Fallen review then you’re well aware that I don’t mean that as a compliment. With all the controversy surrounding Bruno, I pose t

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AUGUST 27, 2009 1:32PM

XO Laptop’s New Software


During the XO laptop upgrade Weekend here in Washington DC, I’ve been taking notes on the OLPC learning club DC impressions of One Laptop per Child’s software 8.2.0 for the XO laptop.

The overwhelming verdict: Finally, the XO laptop really works!

Now why the parents and children of our humbl

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AUGUST 8, 2009 7:19AM

Michael Jackson Life History


The Bio History of Michael Joseph Jackson began when he was born on the 29th of August 1958 in Gary, Indiana. He was the 7th of nine children. (Brothers: Sigmund “Jackie”, Toriano “Tito”, Jermaine, Marlon, Steven “Randy”, and sisters Rebbie, Janet and La-Toya Jacks

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