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Back of fag box book review – Chutzpah : Unlocking the Maverick Mindset for Success
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Chutzpah. Ask 100 people for a definition and you’ll get many different definitions. Some will be positive, others negative.
The majority will say it’s a get up and go, can do attitude. This is the Chutzpah evident in the book. Its 200 pages are filled with inspiring business success stories.
The common thread among them all is that the people behind the stories had big dollops of Chutzpah that made the difference between success and failure.
This is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom stories that dominate the media. Highly recommended as an idea generator for anyone in business or considering starting one.
Rating : 5 out of 5 stars.
Back of fag box film review – Let the right one in
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Snow falls in the darkness. Wind whistles through trees. A boy whispers. His ghostly image appears reflected in a window looking out over the courtyard of a bleak apartment complex in a Stockholm suburb. It’s the dead of night when the boy, Oskar, first sets eyes on his new neighbour, Eli.
The two 12 year olds eventually meet and become friends. Both of them feel like outcasts. Oskar is bullied at school whereas Eli is a 200 year old vampire stuck in a 12 year old body. They become good friends and find acceptance in each others company that they cannot find anywhere else.
Along the way, there is plenty of blood letting as you would expect from a film with a vampire. What you dont expect is everything else – you will just have to go see this absolute gem for yourself.
Rating 5 out of 5 stars
Back of fag box film review – The Wrestler
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The opening titles of this film tell us everything we need to know about Randy “The Ram” Robinson. His best bits from the glory years as a professional wrestler are presented in a rolling montage of magazine and newspaper headlines, ticket stubs, fight posters and studio shots accompanied by the sound of roaring fans and fight commentators.
20 years on, The Ram is still doing some wrestling but he is a broken man unable to adjust to life outside the ring. Everything about this film feels real – almost like a fly on the wall documentary. Mickey Rourke gives a superbly gritty performance in this sometimes hard to watch film which may leave you feeling a little out of sorts for a while.
Rating : 5 stars
Back of fag box book review – Head Rambles
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On Sunday, October 1st 2006 in a cottage somewhere in the Wicklow Hills, a Grandad switches on his computer and says hello to the world via a personal website called Head Rambles. Almost every day since, he has been sharing his thoughts on everything from politics to the weather in a very humorous and entertaining way.
The book is a collection of these thoughts from the the last 3 years. It’s not hard to see why the author has attracted a large and loyal readership to his internet home. Grumbling has never been so funny. Highly recommended
Rating 5/5 stars
Head Rambles is at http://www.headrambles.com
Back of fag box film review – Eden Lake
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Attractive young couple plan to spend a romatic weekend by a lake. An unpleasant encounter with a group of hooded teenagers shortly after their arrival eventually descends into a brutal and terrifying ordeal for the pair.
Eden Lake is a bit of an oddity. It falls somewhere between thriller and horror but doesn’t succeed in either category. It tries to say something about modern society by having the victims as a middle class, hard working couple pitted against ne’er do well, hooded chavvy youths whose parents aren’t much better.
This preys on people’s fears about an underclass who are so detached and disaffected that they have no respect for authority, property or human life. The portrayal of the teenagers just isn’t believable. They are about as threatening as a leaf of lettuce. Sure, there are a few jump in the seat moments and more than a few wince inducing bloody scenes but a good thriller/horror needs much more than that to succeeed. A disappointment.
1 out of 5 stars
