17 January 2010
Cast: Claudia Karvan, Ethan Hawke, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe
Script: Gareth Edwards, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Genre: horror
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IMDb ; Official Site ; MetaCritic This film is utterly meh-worthy. It isn’t entertaining enough to be enjoyable, but isn’t bad enough to merit a walk-out. You’ll most likely forget about it two minutes after you leave the cinema. It’s … Continue reading
14 January 2010
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Week 2: We don’t normally get snow in Ireland. And when we do get it, it is usually a light dusting so having the white stuff on the ground for pretty much a month was something very different for us … Continue reading
14 January 2010
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Today I begin a new meme, and hereby order you all to partake. Even you Anne, with your abandoned blog :). The details: The Guardian recently came out with a list of the top 50 television dramas. All you have … Continue reading
Author: Siobhan Down ISBN: 9780099488163 DDC: 823.92 LibraryThing | Wikipedia | Siobhan Dowd Trust The place brought to mind a sinking ship. Wood creaked on the floor, across the pews, up in the gallery. Around the walls, a fierce March … Continue reading
11 January 2010
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: alien, Washington State
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Author: Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking #2
Okay, so I loved and adored the first book in this series, even with its horrible cliff-hanger of an ending. Luckily enough I had this one waiting at work, so I didn’t have long to wait before I found out about what happened next. If you haven’t read the first book you shouldn’t read this one. Just don’t. Put the book down and go look for The Knife of Never Letting Go, you really won’t have a clue what is going on if you don’t.
Just a word of warning, there are *mild* spoilers in this review.
10 January 2010
Cast: Eddie Marsan, James McAvoy, Jude Law, Mark Strong, Michael Peña, Peter Kay, Rachel McAdams, Robert Downey Jr., Robert John Burke
Script: Anthony Peckham, Lionel Wigram, Michael Robert Johnson, Simon Kinberg
Genre: Action, detective & mystery, historical fiction
Setting: London
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Based on books by Arthur Conan Doyle IMDb ; Sherlock Holmes Guy Ritchie’s re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes is quite a different man from the detective that might pop into your head when you hear the name. There are similarities, of … Continue reading
7 January 2010
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I didn’t get very far with my weekly photos last year. Only had 8 or so I think, judging by archives. But still, 8 is better than none. Right? This was taken from my apartment balcony in Mullingar. It was … Continue reading
6 January 2010
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: alien
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Author: Patrick Ness ISBN: 9781406310252 DDC: 813.6 LibraryThing ; Wikipedia[1] Chaos Walking # 1 The first thing you find out when your dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say. I wasn’t too convinced that … Continue reading
4 January 2010
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: 1920s, C20th, India
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by Julia Gregson
I wasn’t too sure about this book when I first started to read it. It didn’t quite grab my attention, and I wasn’t sure that I’d like any of the three main characters. But I persevered. And came to really quite enjoy it. The story is set in 1928, and our heroes are off to India. One to start a new life with her fiancée whom she really doesn’t know. One to serve as bridesmaid but really part of the “Fishing Fleet” off looking for a husband. And the third is looking for independence and a new life in an old home.
3 January 2010
Cast: Catherine Keener, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Cooper, Forest Whitaker, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Max Records, Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano
Script: Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze
Genre: drama, sff
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based on the book by Maurice Sendak I was never exposed to this book as a kid so didn’t have that “cool, but I hope they don’t wreck it” sort of expectation that some had when they first heard this … Continue reading