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 My take on Duck Soup is at  Note on Duck Soup, with The Marx Brothers | realini

  A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E   and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ One of the best comedies ever, advertised in the tag line as the best comedy ever Some of the scenes from this hilarious film have stuck in my mind. I have seen this comedy many years ago and saw it again yesterday. It was still entertaining to see many people in one room...how many was it, thirty?: Waiters, engineers, maids, I can't think who was missing. And Groucho Marx, as the leader of the team formed with his brothers has a fabulous sense of humor. Some of it is just repeating obsessively some words. At the start, he introduces Mrs. Claypool to Mr. Gotlieb. And he keeps saying: -          ...

  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of the most important books of the moment, As of March 28, 2026, the book has been featured on the New York Times' best-seller list for 41 weeks in total…furthermore, the adaptation for the big screen is celebrated as the biggest success of the year, it has made about (or more than) 150 million at the box office in the US, and another few hundreds of million in the world, though the least is more of a guess, I forgot the figures for outside America, it has also entered the Greatest Books of All Time list, at 6915 th for now – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my macaws   8 out of 10   Project Hail Mary has reminded me of 2001 – A Space Odyssey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/2001-space-odyssey-by-arthur-c-clarke.html a classic of Science Fiction – by ...

  Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here  http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html 10 out of 10     Since it is more than likely that this note will venture into the breaking news of the day, let me introduce a spoiler alert from the beginning, saying that if you looked for an opinion here, it is this – this film is stupendous, memorable and will give you an idea about what will happen next, only it will be on a much bigger scale, and you have yet more of my take at  http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html  and now let me continue   I was thinking of Munich as Hamas has attacked Israel yesterday (October 8, 2023) and they are surely fighting right now, Bibi aka Benjamin Netanyahu has said that they are ‘at war’ – we get an idea about Bibi as a young man by reading The Netanyahus  http:...

  A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, where the author has another two novels: An Ice Cream War and Any Woman Heart, but it is ranked only 5887 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   When I have read A Good Man in Africa https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-good-man-in-africa-by-william-boyd-10.html I was enthused, but after the second encounter I am not as ecstatic, indeed, I agree with Kingsley Amis to some extent, and the latter has surely influenced my impression this time   I thought the novel might be a bit long, though there is a lot happening, Morgan Leafy, First Secretary at the British Commission in Nkongsamba, state capital of the Mid-Western region, Kinjanja, West Africa, gets into a ...

  A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time, which is one of The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, it is ranked 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, you also find it among The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and last but not least, actually, more importantly for this corner, it is one of my Best 50 Novels, although if I count them, they will become the Top 200- you find reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, in case you want to visit   10 out of 10   I am reading A Dance to The Music of Time again https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-buyers-market-by-anthony-powell-10.html and this will be a joy ride, just like the first time- especially given the new ‘strategy’, I will try and keep them together, for some years back, I thought of ‘delayed gratific...