Advantages: Fantastic Album! Great diversity. Disadvantages: There aren't more like it!
I was first introduced to Amadou and Mariam on the sole premise that they sang (at least in part) in French, possibly a bit of a risky strategy for choosing music. However, 3 months on, countless listens in, and one fantastic live show later, it had proved to be one of my friends' best reccommendations.
As a fan of most types of popular music, what really appealed to me about Dimanche a Bamako was the variety of tunes and styles on offer, from reggae in "La réalité" to the dancey "Coulibaly". However, this is by no means an album without a sense of genre; this variation is united by their Malian roots, as well as Manu Chao's expert production, which is one of its qualities that have drawn many to this album. The sheer range of songs on offer means there is something for every occasion, but it can also just as easily be listened to as ...
I watch 50-60 films a year, not counting TV and DVD, and I haven?t seen a worse film than this in the past 5 years. I shared a cinema with 19 other people and there wasn?t a single laugh. The characters were all stereotypes and caricatures; the script was so clunky you could hear the punctuation marks; the editing was done-with-a-penknife clumsy; the film was shot in glaring, garish colour that hurt the eyes; and, yes, there was even a repellent small child ? the kind that you could only find in American films. The whole premise of the film and storyline are unbelievable, and you just hate all the people in it.
The plot revolves around Jason Bateman?s character and wife having a hard time conceiving so that want to go to an island retreat to re-bond, but it?s so expensive they can only afford to go if three other couples go ...
quelconque 01.11.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Couples Retreat
Advantages: Some fun stories Disadvantages: I'd read most of them in other collections
. He mixes subject matter and style so well that you're never quite sure what to expect and you're deeply involved before you know it. Even in his version of a ghost story, you finish wondering exactly who is haunting who. Gaiman keeps the reader off balance, but always a part of things which is what I've always loved about his work and love again here.
In the end, the only disappointment for me was that so much of the content here wasn't new to me. Strangely, it's because I'm such a huge fan of Gaiman that this happened, as a less dedicated fan or a newcomer to his work would find all the stories new and refreshing, as I have frequently done with his work over the years. In this respect "M is for Magic" was very much like a "Greatest Hits" CD, in which the main aim is to attract new fans, with only a couple of new items thrown in to try ...
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