Came across this one on The Wasteland: A – Act your age – Can I ignore this one, 25 and just moved home again :( B – Breast size – huh, your not getting that info so easily :) C … Continue reading
31 July 2004
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Monthly Archives: July 2004
23 July 2004
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Untranslatable words
Open Democracy have an interesting few articles on language, and how many seem to have words that simply cannot be translated into other languages. It is actually surprising to think how much we are shaped because of our language, or … Continue reading
22 July 2004
Cast: Ben Walker, Clive Mantle, Jason Connery, John Abineri, Judi Trot, Kane Mason, Mark Ryan, Massimiliano Andrighetto, Michael Praed, Nathaniel Lindsay, Nickolas Grace, Peter Llewllyn Williams, Phil Rose, Philip Jackson, Ray Winstone, Robert Adie, Robert Pattinson, Scott Ryan
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Britain - Normans, England
10 Stars
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Robin of Sherwood directed by Richard Carpenter
I don’t know if I actually remember this from when it was originally shown on RTE, or if it was repeats. Then again, the last series, the third, was made in 1985. I was six then, so it is entirely … Continue reading
20 July 2004
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: 1950s, Spain
8 Stars
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The South by Colm Tóibín
ISBN: 0330323334 Colm Tóibín has recently been in the news for his new book, The Master which tells the story of Henry James, and is supposedly very good. I haven’t read it, so I don’t know :) But the publicity … Continue reading
20 July 2004
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: Borogravia, Discworld
10 Stars
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Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552149411By my count this is the 28th Discworld novel, although if you include the “Younger Readers’” discworld books then you get 30. So take your pick, I don’t think it really makes much of a difference what number it … Continue reading
15 July 2004
Genre: documentary
9 Stars
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Capturing the Friedmans directed by Andrew Jareki
Starring the family as themselves. This is a documentary about a family, maybe a little on the eccentric side, but seeming quite normal nontheless and what happens when the father is discovered to be a paedophile. He (Arnold) is first … Continue reading
15 July 2004
Cast: Betty Bonifassi, Jean-Claude Donda, Lina Boudreault, Michéle Caucheteux
Genre: animation, musical
Setting: France
7 Stars
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Belleville Rendezvous directed by Slyvain Chomet
This is film that got quite a lot of attention when it came out, but I will admit to being a little put of by the trailer, and as it didn’t stay in my local cinema for very long I … Continue reading
15 July 2004
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Lorella Cravotta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Serge Merlin
Script: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Genre: comedy, romance
Setting: Paris
8 Stars
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Amelie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Another film that I kept meaning to rent but never got round to it, till C4 showed it tonight. I really don’t know how to describe this film. It is quirky and charming, and really you’ll have to watch it … Continue reading
14 July 2004
Call no: 800
Genre: general fiction, sff
8 Stars
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Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan
ISBN: 0743252276 Nathan is dead. Only problem is that he doesn’t really know what’s going on. He is stuck with his family, trying to fill in the holes in his memories, as well as figuring out what is going on. … Continue reading
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
Book 8 in the Sword of Truth series Sometimes you know, people really make me wonder. The Sword of Truth series of books started off fine. Fairly regular “epic fantasy” with an unknown becoming a hero, finding out that he … Continue reading