Posted on December 22nd, 2010 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice – The Final So Stella it is. The rules of The Apprentice have always been vague to the point of pointless and implemented by The Lord Sugar with a delighted capricious inconsistency that leaves us in no doubt who makes the final decisions and therefore who is in charge. But The Apprentice […]
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Posted on December 18th, 2010 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetThe Apprentice – Episodes 10 – 13 “Innovative”, “entrepreneurial”, a “shrewd business move” his lordship’s judgment on Chris’s offer of 20% of all Bus Tour sales, Apollo’s and the agency’s. One must assume that this stroke of genius was one of the reasons that got the bright but lugubriously boring Chris into the final. Yet […]
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Posted on December 13th, 2010 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Tourist – Florian Henckel von Donnersmark Butt-wise Angelina Jolie is OK with me. Better than alright. She also has the high-cheek-boned structure of lasting beauty courtesy perhaps of her part-Iroquois blood; and the rest of the kit is more than up to snuff. But Director Florian HVonD seems obsessed. Shot like an extended […]
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Posted on December 11th, 2010 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice – Episode 10 – London Bus Tours Thomas Hobbes, 17th century English philosopher said of human life that it was “nasty, brutish and short, a war of every man against every man”. This pretty much sums up the business ethos that The Apprentice promotes week in week out. Everything is grist to […]
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Posted on December 8th, 2010 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Love doesn’t make the world go round – sex does: it is the energy that drives action. But sex leaves everything as it is. Love seeks to change things for the better – it aspires to the good. And of course this includes sex itself. Much misery – and bad sex – is caused […]
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