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06 Jul, 2008

Doctor Who - Journey’s End

Posted by: yy In: TV/Movies

Just finished watchig the final episode to the current season of Doctor Who - the fourth series since the show was resurrected in 2005. Frankly, since rediscovering the show of my childhood years back in 2005, I think the Doctor Who series has been getting better and better. If anything, and perhaps as a sign [...]

18 Feb, 2007

Catching up with the Time Lords

Posted by: yy In: TV/Movies

Recently was quite fortunate to get access to some Doctor Who (the official BBC site, and public-contributed information on Wikipedia) videos - all episodes of the Ninth Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston as a matter of fact. After an absence of more than 15 years, interrupted only by presence of the 1996 telefilm, Doctor [...]

20 May, 2006

Da Vinci tour

Posted by: yy In: Internet| TV/Movies

With the release of the new The Da Vinci Code movie, the interest in Dan Brown’s novel of the same title is simply phenomenal.
As another nice example of what is possible with Web 2.0, some creative minds has actually created a Da Vinci Tour and Da Vinci Code Map, both based on Google Maps. This [...]

06 Mar, 2006

Good guys, bad guys

Posted by: yy In: TV/Movies

While I was in Canberra, managed to find some time to watch a couple of movies. Coincidentally, both movies centred around topical Israel-Palestine struggles, where good or bad are not always as clear-cut as they are portrayed in the mainstream media. Both movies were also extremely thought-provoking in my opinion.

31 Jan, 2006

Fearless

Posted by: yy In: TV/Movies

Saw Jet Li’s new movie Fearless last Friday. Fearless is a story about the Chinese martial arts guru Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910), played by Li, who founded the Chin Woo (also known as Jing Wu Men) martial arts school in Shanghai in 1909.
Apart from the breathless fighting scenes and dedication that we have come to expect [...]



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