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...film’s lengthy title is an amalgamation of the two books by Aubrey’s chronicler Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander and the Far Side of the World, that make up the epic narrative. Despite being a bit of a mouthful, the title perfectly fits the movie, as it is an examination of leadership in times of danger and strife and an exploration of the sailors’ reactions to being in a mysterious place which, to them, is the far side of the world...
...resulting record is a dizzying tour through rapidly changing soundscapes, from the epic swells of “Dubs That Don’t Match” to the joyous propulsion of “For Some But Not Me.” It took a visionary like Herren to make the leap from remixing individual songs to remixing his album as a whole, using Extinguished’s textures and sounds to craft a set of completely different songs...
...real Russell Crowe is not quite Aubrey, the unambiguously heroic fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...
...believe that the phrase "true-life TV movie" is an absurdity depends on how you define "true" and "life." These quickie pics are often based on disputed facts, made without knowledge of crucial events and tarted up with invented scenes. But between the lines, they do capture the epic, true-life struggle of programmers to be the first to get these stories on air, access or no access, facts or no facts...
...said his troops wandered roughly 12,000 kilometers through the hinterlands, and that's what most of the history books say. But two British adventurers who just retraced the route report that the journey wasn't quite so epic. Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, two editors living in Beijing, spent 384 days following Mao's trail, consulting hundreds of villagers along the way for guidance in fording rivers and traversing the appropriate mountain passes. Their verdict: The army traveled about 6,000 kilometers, half the fabled distance. "People seem affronted [by the findings] and try to convince...