Many Reviews
Okay, I know when I started up this blog I promised some reviews in addition to my general ranting and insanity. And I intend to deliver. It's just been a while since a movie came out that looked worth seeing, since at some point Hollywood movies became all about making the same moronic horror movie 14 times under slightly different names.
So on to our first review:
Review: Borat: A Film of America for Make Good Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. This movie is too funny for its own good. The synopsis is simple enough, a Kazakh reporter is sent to New York to learn about the American way of life and bring that knowledge back home to improve life in Kazakhstan. After all, America is the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, even if it is run by idiots. Far from being a simple fish out of water comedy, this is a shades of Micheal Moore (seen Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine? Go watch, I'll wait...) take on all things Americana, along with some gross-out humour and my favorite, satire. Some ugly issues get involved, including antisemitism, conflict between the US and pretty much every predominantly Muslim nation, and the 'war' on 'terrorism' (rant saved for another day), but only for the purpose of making them look ridiculous. The mere fact that any of these issues are broached has earned it a ban in some Canadian cinemas and I'm sure many places in the USA (hurts being on the butt end of virtually every political joke, doesn't it?). But every theater in Ottawa with the cajones to show a controversial film has been selling out most nights, everyone I've talked too has said that the theater was packed when they saw it. Borat is by far the funniest movie I've seen since I was introduced to Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail some years ago, and unlike most of what passes for entertainment nowadays it won't rot your brain.
Review: Holsten Festbock Strong Dark Beer: Hey, a beer review? Why? Because I'm running this show and I love my beer. This one is a product of Germany and is 7% alcohol by volume. It is about as dark as any beer I've seen, about the colour of coca-cola. It smells a bit chocolaty and is actually quite sweet. I'm not a big fan of the usual import beers (Guinness, Kilkenny) because being British they are so damn bitter, so I was happy to find an imported beer that suits my tastes. Consulting Wikipedia, a bock is any of a family of dark lagers developed in and around Munich in the middle ages. Being Canadian, I can certainly appreciate a good lager as several are produced domestically. At any rate, I will certainly be making this my weird beer of choice, i.e. that strange import that all beer drinkers seem to have when they get tired of the domestic options.
So on to our first review:
Review: Borat: A Film of America for Make Good Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. This movie is too funny for its own good. The synopsis is simple enough, a Kazakh reporter is sent to New York to learn about the American way of life and bring that knowledge back home to improve life in Kazakhstan. After all, America is the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, even if it is run by idiots. Far from being a simple fish out of water comedy, this is a shades of Micheal Moore (seen Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine? Go watch, I'll wait...) take on all things Americana, along with some gross-out humour and my favorite, satire. Some ugly issues get involved, including antisemitism, conflict between the US and pretty much every predominantly Muslim nation, and the 'war' on 'terrorism' (rant saved for another day), but only for the purpose of making them look ridiculous. The mere fact that any of these issues are broached has earned it a ban in some Canadian cinemas and I'm sure many places in the USA (hurts being on the butt end of virtually every political joke, doesn't it?). But every theater in Ottawa with the cajones to show a controversial film has been selling out most nights, everyone I've talked too has said that the theater was packed when they saw it. Borat is by far the funniest movie I've seen since I was introduced to Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail some years ago, and unlike most of what passes for entertainment nowadays it won't rot your brain.
Review: Holsten Festbock Strong Dark Beer: Hey, a beer review? Why? Because I'm running this show and I love my beer. This one is a product of Germany and is 7% alcohol by volume. It is about as dark as any beer I've seen, about the colour of coca-cola. It smells a bit chocolaty and is actually quite sweet. I'm not a big fan of the usual import beers (Guinness, Kilkenny) because being British they are so damn bitter, so I was happy to find an imported beer that suits my tastes. Consulting Wikipedia, a bock is any of a family of dark lagers developed in and around Munich in the middle ages. Being Canadian, I can certainly appreciate a good lager as several are produced domestically. At any rate, I will certainly be making this my weird beer of choice, i.e. that strange import that all beer drinkers seem to have when they get tired of the domestic options.
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