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The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) [movie review]

this is a very interesting movie to watch (again) after watching the more recent remake with Kee-A-Nu Reeves (a.k.a. Neo). if you put this movie in its historical context, it is almost shocking: that someone in the US would dare go against the mainstream of anticommunist feelings to support peace and anti-war ideas. but the [...]

book review: Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe

rereading this book after all this years is kind of strange. I read this book for the first time sometimes around 1994, before the first non-apartheid elections in SA. however i can only imagine what it must have been reading it when it was first published in 1971. in 1971 nixon was at the white [...]