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Alex Remington: The Host: A Decent Monster Flick, But Nothing More

Bong Joon-ho's recent monster movie The Host was greeted with plaudits normally reserved for a master of the French New Wave, with an average Metacritic score of 85. It had a budget of $11,000,000, quite high for a non-American film, and special ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Bong Joon-ho,  Peter Jackson

Alex Remington: Of the Heart, Of the Soul, and Of the Cross: A Hip-Hop Road Not Taken

I've already written that I think P.M. Dawn is one of the great, underappreciated groups of the 1990's. They're nearly 20 years removed from their only #1 hit, "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss," which sampled "True" by Spandau Ballet and rode in from left ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  22 Nov 2009

Alex Remington: Better: The Malcolm Gladwell of the Medical World Offers His Thoughts on Health Care

Atul Gawande is a doctor who writes for the New Yorker. Or perhaps, at this point in his career, he's a journalist who also happens to be a doctor. He joins an illustrious history of physicians in print, from Maimonides to Anton Chekhov, and he writes ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Malcolm Gladwell,  Anton Chekhov,  David Watts

Alex Remington: The Irregulars: An Engaging Bio of Roald Dahl During the War That Flags When the War Ends

Jennet Conant's recent book The Irregulars is the perfect Washington summer read: it's a breezy society tale about British spying on America before and during World War II, which Franklin Roosevelt tacitly approved, by a ragtag group of future literary ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Roald Dahl,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Ian Fleming,  U.S. Republican Party

Alex Remington: My Father's Paradise: A Memoir About a Lost Jewish World

I recently read Ariel Sabar's memoir My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which was published last year. It begins with a story about going to Israel to find a man who knew his father's family, and being rudely ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Alex Remington: Gabriel Knight 1: A Game This Good Should Live Forever

Christy Marx was one of their developers, and she made two terrific games for them, Conquests of Camelot (rating: 75) and Conquests of the Longbow (rating: 90). Jane Jensen was another, and she cowrote King's Quest 6 (rating: 93) and the Gabriel Knight ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Alex Remington: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: A Half-Baked Take That Leaves a Good Story Untold

Jennifer 8. Lee's recent book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles is a bit like her subject matter: slightly enjoyable, but mostly bland, trite, and unworthy of the meal it evokes. The book is presented as an inquiry into the identity of Chinese food in ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Alex Remington: Where the Wild Things Are: A Monstrously Mediocre Children's Movie

Spike Jonze had a pretty impeccable record, from directing Christopher Walken's triumphal dance in the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," to producing MTV's transcendently stupid pain-porn Jackass, to his magnificent collaborations with ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: MTV,  Spike Jonze,  Christopher Walken,  Fatboy Slim,  Charlie Kaufman

Alex Remington: Ong-Bak 2: The Best Martial Arts Movie You Never Saw

You probably didn't see Ong-Bak 2, the prequel to spectacular 2003 film that introduced American audiences to muay thai, the Thai national martial art. Filmed in an almost distractingly slick style, with slow-motion replays of its hero's most ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Tony Jaa,  Chuck Norris,  Eric Roberts,  Steven Seagal,  Bollywood

Alex Remington: Interview with Christy Marx, Creator of Jem and Author of Comic Books, Computer Games, and Television

No, there honestly isn't. It's more about what I'm writing, the genre and nature of the material, and the amount of freedom I have to create than it is about the medium itself. What I enjoy the most is writing my own original material where I have ...

From ALEX REMINGTON, Huffington Post,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ubisoft,  Sigourney Weaver

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