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 | Reviews Reviews and criticisms of classic and contemporary literature, movies and art, including the occasional review of the slightly offbeat, fill this section. | |
| | | | | |  I want to believe by Asa Butcher
I want to review the new "X-Files" movie 'The X Files: I Want to Believe' in honour of Gillian Anderson's 40th birthday today. I wish the review was going to be a wholly positive affair for her landmark anniversary. | | | |  $2,000 dollars an ounce by Asa Butcher
Thirteen Woody Allen films over the course of six days. However, I consciously decided to end my journey with 'Annie Hall' and it was the perfect conclusion to my Woody Allen education. | | | |  On Being Mystical and Mad in Mongolia by Valerie Sartor
On June 26 at 7:30 PM Mr. James Palmer, a youthful but quite knowledgeable historian, gave a talk at The Beijing Bookworm about his first and already highly acclaimed book: The Bloody White Baron. | |
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| | |  Sand in my living room by Asa Butcher
Heroic, momentous, significant, vast and monumental are just a few of the synonyms suggested by my thesaurus when looking up the word 'epic', and I can declare that 'Lawrence of Arabia' deserved the AFI's declaration that it is the best epic film. | | | |  A Swiss Army Book by Asa Butcher
Do you know what a 'Layter' signifies? What about a 'Yan' or a Yan-a-Bumfit? Come now, it is quite simple for those addicted to 'Ducks and Drakes'! | | | |  Tony Judt on the West's Misremembering of its History by Emanuel L. Paparella
Tony Judt, as the consummate engaged historian that he is, has recently written another book on the lessons of history. It is a collection of brilliant essays meant as a reprimand to the liberals who "acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign | | | |  The Hulk: Mark Two by Asa Butcher
Wow! How else can I begin a review of the latest Incredible Hulk film that left me breathless and forgetting to actually blink during many of its superb action sequences? | | | |  The Big Three in Asia by Valerie Sartor
Bill Emmott, the former chief editor of The Economist, presented a talk at The Beijing Bookworm about his newest book: 'Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade'. | | | |  Half-way bad; half-way good by Asa Butcher
It has been a good decade since I last watched Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in 'Out of Africa' and I am sorry to inform you that my feelings towards the film have not altered with the passage of time. | | | |  007 #1 by Asa Butcher
May 28th 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth, so there's no better way to commemorate the day than with a review of the first James Bond novel 'Casino Royale'. | | | | next | | |
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