Review Haiku – Innocent Saturday
Posted on February 6, 2012
The cost of knowledge
Unable to tell of doom
Unwilling to flee
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Review Haiku – Octopussy
Posted on April 14, 2011
A Fabergé egg
Leads James Bond to India
And a shining star
A bunch of women
Fights off a bunch of bad guys
Bond thwarts evil plot
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Review Haiku – Firefox
Posted on February 21, 2011
A low-speed car chase
Leads to a high-speed jet chase
Dogfight at Mach 6
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Review Haiku – Liberation
Posted on May 29, 2010
Europe under siege
Documentary of war
How the Allies won
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Review Haiku – The Spy Who Loved Me
Posted on November 14, 2009
Bond is on the job
Hunts for stolen submarines
Escapes steely Jaws
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Tagged with: 1977, 3 stars, action film, austria, egypt, James Bond, Lewis GILBERT, movie review, Review Haiku, sequel, soviet union, spy film, united kingdom
Review Haiku – Dr Strangelove
Posted on August 12, 2009
They want peace on Earth
Must stop the conspiracy
Send in the bombers
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Review Haiku – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted on April 1, 2009
Dusty fedora
A saucerful of secrets
Welcome back, Indy
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Review Haiku – The Good Shepherd
Posted on November 21, 2008
From the halls of Yale
Security starts at home
With the family
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Review Haiku – Solaris
Posted on November 16, 2008
Between school and work, I haven’t written much here lately. However, there’s a huge backlog of Review Haiku to post, so it’s time to start it up again.
Is Solaris life?
Russian answer to Kubrick
Life is existence
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Tagged with: 1972, 3 stars, Andrei TARKOVSKY, based on a book, movie review, outer space, Review Haiku, science fiction, soviet union
Review Haiku – Battleship Potemkin
Posted on March 5, 2007
Of lice and vermin
Eisenstein creates drama
Propaganda works
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