Sun And The Earth, The - Steve Salas

The Sun also surprises

Advantages: Successful, professional, knows its market
Disadvantages: Brash, trivial, scurrilous, simplistic, self-congratulatory

It is, I think, a good idea to confront one's prejudices from time to time, and it would be hard to be more prejudiced than I am against The Sun newspaper. I hardly ever see The Sun in the usual way of things, let alone read it, yet if you asked me to describe it I would have no difficulty in trotting out at least a dozen derogatory adjectives, the most polite of which you will see listed as "Cons" in the summary points above. The fact that The Sun is part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire only serves to redouble my bias against it. The trouble is that I'm such a sad case of bleeding-heart liberal that I'm not truly content to live with knowing I'm prejudiced. So when I saw that the Ciao competition for May was for reviews on sun-related topics, I decided it was time I bought a few issues of The Sun and made a serious attempt ...

torr 28.05.2005 (16.06.2005) · Read full review
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The Tao of the Tao of Steve

Advantages: realistic likeable characters
Disadvantages: predictable plot, and the box design

I saw this film pretty much as soon as it came out on dvd (it had a different cover then) and it's such a hidden treasure that when I saw no-one had reviewed it I decided I had to. ********The story This film is essentially about a thirty-something ambitionless nursery teacher (Dex) who coasts through life and has created his fusion philosophy of Buddhism lite, pop-philosophy and trying to be like all the cool 'Steves' in movies (Steve McQueen being the ultimate role model) which seems to bring him luck with the ladies despite his somewhat average looks: 'The Tao of Steve'. He spends many an afternoon playing frisbie golf and passing on his words of wisdom to his mates. I didn't quite keep his exact words in mind while watching, so I call upon the official film website for his essential philosophical statement drawn from Heidegger ...

dakota196 02.12.2005 · Read full review
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun!

Advantages: The title track is a big hitter, great to see them still in action
Disadvantages: Very patchy quality, just not classic Placebo

album, any good? Well, that depends on your point of view, really. It's an enjoyable enough piece of music, but does it match the heights of the glory days of the self-titled Placebo and Without You I'm Nothing? No, not really. Molko has said this is the first Placebo album with a 'discernable thematic unity'. He often talks like this, which has raised many accusations of pretentiousness over the years, but to be fair, bands will say almost anything to avoid the phrase 'concept album', aka 'commercial kiss of death'. Not that Battle For the Sun really comes across as a concept album, mind you. There's a healthy amount of variety on here, from the Britpopesque Kings of Medicine to the quasi-Queens of the Stone Age sound of parts of title track Battle For the Sun, and the combination of new drummer Steve Forrest and producer ...

Olly_Plimsoll 13.08.2009 · Read full review
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