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21st May 2010

On Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2: A Review in Two Parts

By John David Ebert

1. Quaternio

At one point in this film, Tony Stark, who realizes that he is dying of palladium poisoning (the fictitious element that powers his artificial heart) sets to work in order to synthesize a new element that will enable him to replace the palladium that is currently poisoning him. He finds the design for this element encoded in a model of a prototype city (think of Disney’s original plans for EPCOT) bequeathed to him by his dead father, Howard Stark, who was a physicist and urban designer (sort of a cross between Walt Disney and Howard Hughes). Read the rest of this entry »

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2nd May 2010

On Harry Brown

Harry Brown: A Movie Review

(Actually more of a political comment).

By John Lobell

Harry Brown, with seventy-seven year old Michael Caine, is in the tradition of Death Wish but it most closely evokes eighty year old Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, even to the point of using the “Harry” from Eastwood’s earlier Dirty Harry movies.

Old retired guy, wife has just died, himself with lung cancer or emphysema, neighborhood terrorized by youth gangs, ineffectual cops, our hero good with weapons from war experience.  He becomes a vigilante and takes out the bad guys. Read the rest of this entry »

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