Tony Klinger

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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As most of you realize, I don’t usually write my articles for this blog straight onto the site. I take time to reflect, to edit, to imagine the consequences. Sometimes you see something that means you just have to break your own rules.
Such a something is the current Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado. Did I [...]

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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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Jade Goody is the Z list celebrity who was just given the news that she has possibly terminal cancer, live on Indian TV’s version of Celebrity Big Brother. It was the cruelest, most vile and despicable thing ever broadcast.
Jade, who is 27, had first become famous in the UK after appearing on the Channel 4 [...]

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No one can criticize the Beijing Olympics for their efficiency, scope or scale. It is simply awe inspiring and magnificent. Nevertheless its enormity renders it impersonal and somewhat robotic.
It was refreshing to watch the men’s second round table tennis (ping pong) match between an Austrian and a Croat. One of them, it doesn’t matter which, [...]

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