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al-Massir (Destiny – life of Averroes, 1997)
Not often will we watch Arab cinema or get recommendations for Arab movies, or enthusiastic reviews. I’ve been waiting a lot for this one. It’s one of the best historical dramas I’ve seen lately, and probably the best one based on an important philosophers life – the life of (known by his latinized name) Averroes.…
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Terminator I by Randall Frakes & W.H. Wisher(Romanian translation from 1994,editura Elit Comentator Bucharest)
I got this book from our friend at toate.org from a fleamarket raid ending with a few other classix such as The Sphere. This was the book the movie was based on. There are several reasons why I started reading it. First, because it introduced the cyborg as a pop phenomenon into the US. Particularly…
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GRACE (2009) by Paul Solet
If it’s not Planet Neukoln how could it be otherwise than a neck-biting, genre-bending movie. Grace brings up blissful, religious imagery to mind, a candid and merciful inhabiting of this world. Well while still keeping up with this traditional credo(mostly US protestant background of the word), Grace delivers one of the most disturbing vampire movies…