Tony Klinger

In my other blog at http://bcreativelimited.blogspot.com/ I wrote yesterday about the politics behind the film W and other films like it, particularly from this film’s director, Oliver Stone.
At a time when America is limping towards the newly elected President Elect Obama you would think it was a potentially great time for a gifted director to [...]

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This is meant as a send up title, but you can bet that there will be readers who don’t get the joke, or simply don’t think its very funny. My publishers suggested that I needed to come up with another title for my book, and a front cover idea, and for suggest read, GET ON [...]

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a truly fascinating film with a German central character, an eight-year-old boy, set in the Second World War. Ironically I happen to be writing a book about a German hero in the Second World War and am therefore dealing with the moral anomalies of such a scenario.
In this [...]

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Today we review the film Hellboy II – The Golden Army. It’s great fun and very well directed by Guillermo Del Toro who is clearly a gifted man. His visual concepts are surreal but believable, kind of a Salvador Dali painting brought to life. There’s a direct line in his style from his last release, [...]

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Suffering from severe Olympic withdrawal symptoms I had to do something urgent to take my mind away from the missing synchronized swimming, the Greco-Roman wrestling and the intense water polo matches.
Selecting my choice with careful precision I arrived at the inevitable conclusion that only one film could fill that gap,  “You Don’t Mess With the [...]

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