Battle of the Biopics: The Iron Lady (2011) vs J Edgar (2011)

I’ve been thinking of ways to hasten the catching up of my movie reviews, but at the same time it didn’t feel fair to put some of the higher profile films in a four-film blitz. So I came up with a compromise. A head-to-head between two of the biggest biopics of 2011, Meryl Streep’s The Iron
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Contemplating the end of the world

So the world is apparently going to end on December 21. We’ve had plenty of scares before, be it Y2K or Nostradamus or some loony evangelical pastor in Texas, but this time a lot of people genuinely believe it because it’s supposedly from the Mayans. Chances are most of them have seen Apocalypto and know
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God umpires Andre Agassi vs Michael Chang

As a follow up to the popular “Inside Agassi and Becker’s Secret Rivalry” post, I have pitched Andre Agassi against Chinese American superstar Michael Chang, another guy that Agassi trashed like a used needle in his controversial autobiography Open. Of course, a contest between two tennis greats can only be a five set match, and
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Farewell 2011…but 2012 is going to epic!

And…we’re back to our regular programming. 2011 was a massive year for me. I made WordPress.com’s “Freshly Pressed” list (with this post). I migrated my website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org (and this is how I did it). I graduated from my masters degree in writing (and this is what I thought of it). I moved
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