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The Latest Commentary: He wasn’t just T.E. Lawrence; he was Lord Jim, Henry II, Mr. Chips, Don Quixote, Jim Larkin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Pope Paul III, kings, colonels, earls and, most memorably, Eli Cross and Alan Swann
My personal ranking of films released in the year 2013 (that I have seen so far)
Commentary Flashback: 6 September 2001: The man who swore that The Gong Show Movie was the best film he had ever seen
The Ten Latest Reviews…
When The Stunt Man on his movie dies, megalomaniac director Eli Cross convinces the desperate fugitive Cameron to take his place
A rare convergence of the universe puts the ultimate weapon in the grasp of the Dark Elves, leading the thunder god Thor to the The Dark World in pursuit of the evil Malekith
In a bit of self-interested matchmaking, young servant Albert convinces American dancer Jerry Halliday that Lady Alyce Marshmorton is A Damsel in Distress who needs his assistance
In a series of battle simulations for child soldiers, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin emerges as humanity’s best hope, as Ender’s Game tactics reveal his talent for both leadership and strategy
Hairdresser Ida has always put other family members first, but she may learn during a wedding in Italy that Love Is All You Need
Finding herself at loose ends after her separation from the Prince of Wales, Princess Diana enters into a love affair with a Pakistani-born heart surgeon
Despite being afflicted with motor neuron disease as a young man, Stephen Hawking goes on to make far-reaching contributions to the world’s understanding of black holes and quantum mechanics
In order to uncover her connection to one of The Mortal Instruments, shadowhunter Jace brings Clary to the City of Bones in an attempt to unblock her memories
Scott Hastings wants to dance his own steps at the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix, but his mother and his coach insist that he must dance nothing that is not Strictly Ballroom
When a strange eastern cult targets Ringo Starr for sacrifice because of a ring he cannot remove from his finger, he and his band mates find themselves crying Help!
Selected Past Reviews…
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks: Now on DVD in Ireland
Flashback to 1961: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story
Flashback to 1994: Diane Kurys’s A la Folie
Other Stuff…
Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies (updated 16 December)
Top Movies (updated 3 December)
Web Site Statistics (updated 3 December)
My 2013 Galway Film Fleadh Journal (updated 16 July)
Reader feedback (updated 11 April)
My Oscar Predictions for movies released in 2012 (updated 19 March)
My List of Personal Eyewitness Accounts of Public Interviews of Various Movie People (updated 16 July 2012)
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Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 2,130
