Reviews of movies, series and books that have reference to the themes on this blog.
There is a hero inside everyone waiting to get out. So all you daydreamers out there, here's a kick-in-the-pants list of life lessons from the latest movie version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
The newspaper reviews would have you believe that this movie is an inside view on how the masses get swindled by the moneyed few. If you go in there with that jaundiced view then of course you’re going to find all the evidence you need to support it. THE STORY is in fact much smarter than that. The action happens over a 24-hour period on the day that the music stops, inside one investment bank whose big cheese, John Tuld (played brilliantly by Jeremy Irons) gets called in to assess [...]
