Pathfinder dir. by Marcus Nispel
based on Veiviseren by Nils Gaup Five hundred years before Columbus another European people journeyed to the Americas. These raiders left behind a young boy, who was taken in by The...
Boy Eats Girl dir. by Stephen Bradley
You know the old story; Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Something gets in the way of true love, but they over come it to live happily ever...
Daemon alert
Edited to add: The Daemon quiz thing is no longer being hosted, so I guess this title no longer makes any sense Also, the idea of a blog by Eamonn Dunphy...
TT #14
Almost forgot about this, for some reason I thought yesterday was Tuesday?! Anyways, this week’s list of thirteen is … totally random I’ve discovered why Battlestar Galactica is bugging me. It...
The blame game
How private should private be, and who can ever possibly take it upon themselves to turn the private public? We are living in a precarious time, a time when both spheres are bleeding into each other and the line of demarcation is wavering. There is great potential here. Either we will become a society who ostracizes even more violently those who are different from us, suspect of every quiet student who doesn’t dress like the rest, suspicious of any husband or wife who doesn’t drag his or her child to every Saturday soccer game, or maybe, just maybe, we’ll become a society responsible to something greater than ourselves
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
See also: Library Thing ; Once Upon a Time ; A Librarian told me so It starts with this faint sound that pulls me out of sleep: a sort of calliope...
Curse of the Golden Flower dir. by Yimou Zhang
or Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia Set in the Tang dynasty in the 10th Century, this film tells the tale of the Emperor Ping and his cold war with...
The Lives of Others dir. by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
In 1984 in East Germany the secret police, or Stasi were everywhere, watching everything. This film details the activities of one officer, Wiesler, as he monitored a popular playwright. Wiesler doesn’t believe that Dreyman could possibly be as pro the party as he makes out. Too arrogant. So he suggests keeping him under surveillance, just in case. His superior officer doesn’t agree, at first, but then Minister Bruno Hempf mentions that perhaps he isn’t such a fan, and that perhaps Dreyman isn’t a favourite. It turns out that Hempf is more than interested in Dreyman’s girlfriend, the actress Christa-Maria Sieland, and so would like nothing better than to remove his rival by having him arrested and taken away.
And I’m off
Heading back up to Sligo again this evening. The reason being, I’ve gotta collect my new laptop. A Dell Inspiron 6400. But before I go, some good news. I don’t have...
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
ISBN: 0575075783 Christopher Priest.co.uk ; The Universal Library ; Her name is Teresa Ann Gravatt and she is seven years old: She has a mirror through which she can see into...
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