On it’s 20th birthday as a key EU member state, Spain celebrates the European identity and looks ahead with confidence in the Peninsula’s potential to be “Everything Under The Sun”
By John Dough
In 1986, the Kingdom of Spain lived a historic moment, becoming a full member of what was then known as the European Community. The formal incorporation of the Iberian Peninsula into the larger European context was seen as the beginning an era, and now, twenty years down the line, the transformation of the country’s economy into one of the EU’s strongest is an undeniable reality.
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Film reviews by Igor Donne
Perhaps you will get the idea I do not watch much T.V. or film, and that is true. Just what can be had from the library when a movie is in order.
Despite that reality this list follows, please send your contributions
with adulation or acrimony.
GREAT
Blood Diamond
Battle for Algiers
Matrix (only the First film) - [everyone in the biz knows government agents put guns in those Wachowski bros. mouths and made them create sequels]
Sin City
300 (Didn’t Greek guys have hairy chests and arms and legs? Did I miss a waxing scene?)
Ong Bak - Tony Jaa, the greatest since Bruce Lee, and in this film, perhaps the greatest ever. A great film.
Ran - Kurosawa’s masterpiece
Kundun - Scorsese’s most beautiful film about the life of H.H. the Dalai Lama
Taxi Driver - Scorsese’s greatest ugly film.
Lagaan - Beautiful hindi film, robbed of the Oscar to facilitate the War n Terror
Children of Men - frightening and moving
Hideous Kinky - Brilliant study of the ex-pat spirt quest set.
Kak and utter kak
Closer-So bad it is unbearable to watch
I Am Legend-Worse than Closer, if possible, perhaps the worst monster movie since The Relic
No country for old men - boring fake and insipid, that ass would get iced in one day acting the fool in this land.
Fantastic Four - oh my God, that was pure pain from beginning to end.
King Kong (And the revolting Ring Movies)
Iron Man (The Drug Use Avengers Squad - How did the director shed all those pounds? And let us not broach the topic of racist one dimensional Muslim baddies with no motive)
The Protector - Tony Jaa totally wasted in a deeply bad film.
The Interpreter - The first time anyone got full access to the U.N. building to make a movie and they made the most boring, pointless, nonsensical movie ever.
