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17th Precinct [TV series review]

Ronald D. Moore, the creator of Battlestar Galactica Re-imagined 2004-2009 developed a new series in 2011 for a TV network, assembled a super cast (mostly from BSG) and made a pilot which remains officially unaired. Apparently it’s “Harry Potter for grownups” (from Wikipedia). Anyway the series was not picked up and the pilot has remained [...]

The Riding House Cafe, London [review]

The riding house cafe

43-51 GREAT TITCHFIELD ST

LONDON W1W 7PQ

 

 

Very busy cafe/brasserie in W1W at the corner of Great Titchfield street and Riding House street.

Because it gets very busy, booking is highly recommended.

We went for breakfast.

I had the full english breakfast, that comes with beans, eggs, sausage, mushroom, [...]

“Nostalgia for the Light” [movie review]

Documentary seen at Curzon Renoir London.

Dictators seem to be stupid and in fact normally besides being brutal and inhuman and blood thirsty, they make huge mistakes that compromise their own position and end up losing it all.

Augusto Pinochet was a dictator and he was stupid amongst the [...]

Red Planet (2000) [movie review]

the same colleague who reminded me of Mission to Mars (2000) , the Brian De Palma movie, suggested this second trip-to-Mars based movie, “Red Planet”, also released in 2000.

while re-watching Mission to Mars was inspiring and I watched it twice, watching for the first time Red Planet, was not pleasant at all. It goes to [...]

Jamie Johnson’s “The One Per Cent” [movie review]

It’s interesting, especially as a documentary made “from within”, but it’s not the first nor the most interesting – we know plenty about the inequalities of american society and capitalistic economy and we’ve seen better documentaries denouncing the downside of criminal capitalistic corporate greed. worth watching if you haven’t already.