13 October 2010
Genre: romance, sff
Setting: alternate world, Britain - Victorian, London
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by Gail Carriger
And the reason for Miss Tarabotti’s lack of enjoyment it that she was promised refreshment at a private ball, and when it didn’t arrive she absconded to the library and ordered some tea. And while there she was attacked by a vampire. How rude!
13 October 2010
Genre: horror
Setting: 1960s, USA - Illinois
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It is the last day of school at “Old Central”, the building is being decommissioned and after the summer holidays the children will be going to a new school. Tubby Coakes isn’t about to hang around for the final bell. He has his bathroom pass and isn’t about to go back to class. Unfortunately for Tubby his explorations are going to get him killed. And for many of his classmates the end of Old Central is the start of a summer of horror and death.
12 October 2010
Cast: Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: drama
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For this year’s RIP challenge Carl has suggested that as well as reading horror-ific books we might also watch some suitable films and to get the ball rolling on my RIP films I decided to rewatch M. Night Shymalan’s The Village.
I quite enjoyed it the first time around. I don’t seem to recall having been all that surprised by any of the so-called twists or reveals, but it was an enjoyable film.
4 October 2010
Cast: Anna Faris, Celia Weston, Jesse Plemons, Michael Peña, Ray Liotta, Seth Rogen
Script: Jody Hill
Genre: comedy, failure
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Writ & Dir by Jody Hill
This is a supposed comedy in which a mall cop tries to get together with the “hot girl” and stop a flasher and find out who is stealing from the mall and also join the real police. I hated it. Hated and despised it. With a fiery fiery passion. Continue reading