http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/8 Reviews and criticisms of classic and contemporary literature, movies and art, including the occasional review of the slightly offbeat, fill this section. 05.09.2008 en http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3366 2008-08-09 09:44:51 Asa Butcher I want to review the new \"X-Files\" movie \'The X Files: I Want to Believe\' in honour of Gillian Anderson\'s 40th birthday today. I wish the review was going to be a wholly positive affair for her landmark anniversary. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3330 2008-08-01 09:03:59 Asa Butcher Thirteen Woody Allen films over the course of six days. However, I consciously decided to end my journey with \'Annie Hall\' and it was the perfect conclusion to my Woody Allen education. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3212 2008-07-19 08:42:18 Valerie Sartor On June 26 at 7:30 PM Mr. James Palmer, a youthful but quite knowledgeable historian, gave a talk at The Beijing Bookworm about his first and already highly acclaimed book: The Bloody White Baron. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3228 2008-07-02 09:46:21 Asa Butcher Heroic, momentous, significant, vast and monumental are just a few of the synonyms suggested by my thesaurus when looking up the word \'epic\', and I can declare that \'Lawrence of Arabia\' deserved the AFI\'s declaration that it is the best epic film. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3193 2008-06-25 10:13:24 Asa Butcher Do you know what a \'Layter\' signifies? What about a \'Yan\' or a Yan-a-Bumfit? Come now, it is quite simple for those addicted to \'Ducks and Drakes\'! http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3140 2008-06-23 08:31:26 Emanuel L. Paparella Tony Judt, as the consummate engaged historian that he is, has recently written another book on the lessons of history. It is a collection of brilliant essays meant as a reprimand to the liberals who \"acquiesced in President Bush\'s catastrophic foreign http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3152 2008-06-15 10:19:36 Asa Butcher Wow! How else can I begin a review of the latest Incredible Hulk film that left me breathless and forgetting to actually blink during many of its superb action sequences? http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3146 2008-06-14 08:20:29 Valerie Sartor Bill Emmott, the former chief editor of The Economist, presented a talk at The Beijing Bookworm about his newest book: \'Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade\'. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/3145 2008-06-13 07:51:43 Asa Butcher It has been a good decade since I last watched Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in \'Out of Africa\' and I am sorry to inform you that my feelings towards the film have not altered with the passage of time. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/870 2008-05-28 07:53:14 Asa Butcher May 28th 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming\'s birth, so there\'s no better way to commemorate the day than with a review of the first James Bond novel \'Casino Royale\'.