Monthly Archives: January 2009

I kept hearing and reading that Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the latest Woody Allen film is his best in a decade. Considering that the last one I see from beginning to end was “Bullets Over Broadway” from 1994 it didn’t mean … Continue reading →

A zsigereimben el, hogy en biztos jo parszor lattam gyerekkoromban az Egy bolond szazat csinal. Az apai nagymama ugyanis nagy Latabar rajongo volt, es en majd minden szombatot naluk toltottem kis koromban. Ilyenkor filmeket is neztunk, mert amint tudott beszerzett … Continue reading →

I admit I am an addict. I just have to have a regular dose of science fiction. Ideally I would like to read high quality books. But sometimes I am too tired to read, but not too tired to watch … Continue reading →

I have seen only a few episodes of the original X-Files series and the first movie, so I didn’t have extensive background knowledge or expectations when I watched the second movie: “The X Files: I Want to Believe“. Nevertheless I … Continue reading →

Billy Bob Thornton is so good at playing sleazy characters. In Bad Santa he had the opportunity to swear, smoke drink, and womanize as a department-store robbing, child-hating, down and out Santa Claus. As I don’t like to encounter this … Continue reading →

Yesterday I finally watched two movies I wanted to for a while. I heard only positive opinions about them. They were both made in the US, in 1995, the year I moved here. That is the main reason I missed … Continue reading →

Last September I discovered the Guardian’s list of  “1000 films to watch before you die” and mentioned in a blog entry that I will try to watch as many of them as I can. (Then in November I created a … Continue reading →

In college I had to take 20th century US history twice, because I transferred. So I thought I knew enough about the Watergate scandal. But All the president’s men added much more to the bare facts I was familiar with. … Continue reading →

My paternal grandmother, whom I called Mama, loved ABBA. Therefore when I became a teenage, and even before, I decided not to like them. I thought it would be uncool to like the same kind of music as my grandma. … Continue reading →

Everything is gray in the Hungarian yuppie life of the mid 2000′s. Unless you managed to escape to, say India, because your actions on the stockmarket were considered illegal. Meanwhile, life is just passing by your eyes and you delude … Continue reading →