http://www.pgabor.com/wp Gabor Por's personal/professional blog Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:16:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is impossible to separate my review of Barack Obama's Dreams from my father from the fact that I read the second half of it the day after he was elected to be the next president of the USA. This little factoid enhanced the importance of the book. By then, ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/11/05/obama-dreams-from-my-father/ In Miss Conception the lovely Heather Graham plays a buys professional woman, who is told she has one week to get pregnant as she only has one more egg. She really wants a child, but she just took a break from her commitment-anxious boyfriend, who is out of town for ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/29/miss-conception/ There are many things to like in Atlantic City, despite being a depressive movie. First of all Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon are terrific. The former plays a man who likes to think he used to be somebody. The latter plays a woman who likes to think she will be ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/28/atlantic-city/ David Brin's Kiln people is the first book I read based on a LibraryThing member's recommendation. Several people said I should read it, because based on my extensive review in LT on the original golem story and my interest in science-fiction it was a natural candidate to add o ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/26/brin-kiln-people/ I really like Judie Foster and haven't seen her for a while. At least that's how it seemed, but checking on IMDB I can see that she made one movie every year since 2004 and I have seen most of them. Compared to other actors, who make 4-7 movies a ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/25/nims-island/ I still haven't seen the new Alfie, from 2004 with Jude Law. This is a good thing, because this way I could enjoy more the original Alfie from 1966 with Michael Caine. My joy was mixed though. On one hand there were plenty of comedic elements in the movie. The ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/24/alfie/ Kevin Smith is a part-time genius. His first movie (practically) was Clerks, which was so new in style and content that it took some time to get into it. Once I got it, I loved it. On the other hand everything that was right with Clerks, was wrong with Clerks ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/23/chasing-amy/ On my list of (top 1000) movies to watch is Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo from 1959, of which Assault on precinct 13 is a modern version. (Off topic musing: Can I still call it modern if it was done 30 years ago. I guess not because Assualt was redone again ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/22/assault-on-precinct-13/ I watched the first 15 minutes of Slacker uprising and that was more than enough for me. What a self-aggrandizing bore. The original title of the movie was Captain Mike Across America and that reflected more the direction it went. And I am not talking about the 60 city tour ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/21/slacker-uprising/ An American in Paris is as light as comedic musical gets, but there were two things bothering my fun. First, the main theme of the music drove me crazy as I kept thinking I know this. At the end I decided that I must have known this melody form other ... http://www.pgabor.com/wp/2008/09/19/an-american-in-paris/