The Break-Up dir. by Peyton Reed
You all know I’m a fan of Vince Vaughn’s, so I was quite looking forward to this. Plus the trailers looked entertaining, though we do know that you can never trust...
12 August 2006
Miami Vice dir. by Michael Mann
If I’m honest there isn’t much to say about this film. Overall it is a huge amount of meh. Nothing more, nothing less. Maybe I should at the very least try?...
10 August 2006
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Short Fictions and Illusions ISBN: 0755322835 Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors. Partly because you are never quite sure what you are going to get. He has his wonderful...
7 August 2006
Little, Big by John Crowley
ISBN: 0413513505 See also: Spike Magazine This book, one of the classics of fantasy literature, did absolutely nothing for me. Okay, that is a slight exageration, because there were some touches...
2 August 2006
Angel-A dir. by Luc Besson
Don’t you just hate when a film you’ve been enjoying falls to pieces in the final third? Angel-A starts off well. We meet André as he tries to talk his way...
2 August 2006
Renaissance dir. by Christian Volckman
It is 2054, Paris and a young woman has just been kidnapped. Karas, a police captain specialising in kidnapping is charged to find her, and to find her alive. The company...
28 July 2006
Time Added On by George Hook
When you are a child, and you’re poor, and you live next to other people who are poor, you never think of yourself as being poor.
Around a month ago I read an entry on Omaniblog about this book, up until then I hadn’t even known that George Hook had a book out. But that post caught my attention. George Hook is probably best known in Ireland for his rugby punditry. Together with Brent Pope and Tom McGurk, he analyses rugby for RTE in an entertaining, honest, blunt manner. He also has a radio show, but I’m not big on the radio so haven’t heard him enough to comment on that. In many ways I suppose he is the Eamonn Dunphy of the rugby world.
But I know him primarily from his rugby comments, and his constant promises that Munster will lose, and that the likes of Stringer shouldn’t be playing. I disagree with him, but am well aware that he is very knowledgeable about the game. And in an entertaining way.
25 July 2006
That’s not even a plot dir. by Jack Bender
Last episode of season 2 of Lost was on last night. And can I just say that this has to be the most pointless telly watching I have ever done. I...
25 July 2006
The Cave of the Yellow Dog dir. by Byambasuren Davaa
There is very little plot to this film. It all revolves around Nansal, a six year old girl, who while out looking for dung to fuel a fire comes across a...
23 July 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest dir. by Gore Verbinksi
Took me long enough, but I finally managed to catch POTC2, and despite loving the first one I have to say that this just isn’t that great. Yes it has wonderful...
23 July 2006
No present like time by Steph Swainston
ISBN: 0575077980 – Infinity Plus review January 2020 On this soft night I followed the Moren River valley, flying back to the Castle, hearing the chimes of clock towers in the...
20 July 2006
Superman Returns dir. by Bryan Singer
Superman has never really been a superhero that I was a fan of. Sure, he is faster than a speeding bullet and has saved the world on numerous times, but I’ve...
20 July 2006