Tag: de palma
La Flor de mi Secreto (the Flower of my Secret)
Almodóvar’s nod to the future offers ample evidence of the director’s growing maturity.
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Atonement
This adaptation of the novel is both period piece and manipulative melodrama.
- Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
The walls have ears: a painful look at the methods of the former East German regime shines a light on the darkness.
- Originally published: 11 Oct 2007 in Film
Audition
Book a reunion with your last meal: Takashi Miike turns a love story into a horror gorefest within minutes.
- Originally published: 11 Jan 2007 in Film
Rant
Palahniuk’s changing – or maybe it’s me – but I predict a parting of the ways sometime soon.
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 in Books
The Good Shepherd
This dry history of a mystery man’s motivations hides its intelligence rather too well.
- Originally published: 16 Oct 2007 in Film
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.