Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Season II dir. by Joss Whedon
Spoilers cause you know this has been out for how many years now? Finally made my way through the final few episodes of Buffy, season 2 this weekend. Have to say...
20 November 2005
Iron Council by China Mieville
This is the third of Mieville’;s books to be set in the wonderful world of New Crobuzon, and so far my favourite of this ‘verse. I enjoyed Perdido Street Station, admired...
19 November 2005
Rome – 1.04: Stealing from Saturn dir. by Julian Farino
Episode: 1.04 -because I’m sticking with the HBO episode numbers from now on, although this is the third shown on the Beeb. In this episode Julius finally makes it back to...
17 November 2005
The Brothers Grimm dir. by Terry Gilliam
Well, this’ll teach me not to keep offline copies of my reviews won’t it. The original had been eradicated from web-land, so my poor memory will have to come up with...
17 November 2005
Rome – 1.02 dir. by Michael Apted
I haven’t mentioned the episode’s title in this post as I’m not sure what it is. You see, the BBC have decided to cut the first three episodes shown in American...
10 November 2005
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit dir. by Nick Park, Steve Box
The first feature length outing for Wallace and Gromit sees them in the vegetable-protection industry. As AntiPesto they specialise in keeping the village’s prized vegetables safe from the ever hungry mouths...
5 November 2005
Rome – The Stolen Eagle dir. by Michael Apted
Publicity for this has certainly been building up the sex and the violence, and this first episode did live up to that. Then again, opening with Julius Caesar in Gaul there...
4 November 2005
Serenity by Keith R.A. DeCandido
ISBN: 1416502882 813.54 Novelization of the film by the same name. Where do you start when you go to write a novelization? Do you just stick to the script, or go...
27 October 2005
Howl’s Moving Castle dir. by Hayao Miyazaki
I always meant to see Spirited Away, but never got around to it, so I’m glad I got a chance to see this film, by the same director, in the cinema....
24 October 2005
Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465582 When Judith Taverner first meets Julian St. John Audley, the fifth Earl of Worth, things do not run smoothly. So when she discovers that he is her legal guardian...
23 October 2005
Corpse Bride dir. by Mike Johnson, Tim Burton
Poor old Victor just can’t get his through his wedding rehearsal, can’t remember his lines, bumps into things, sets the bride’s mother on fire. It is all enough to send anyone...
22 October 2005
Sharpe’s Sword by Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 0002214105 All the usual Sharpe ingredients are present here: war, women, and treachery. This is the fourth in the series, or at least was the fourth book published. It isn’t...
20 October 2005