We3 by Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison
ISBN: 1401204953 I heard about this comic over at The Woolamaloo Gazette, and when I took a look on the forbiddenplanet site it was quite cheap around nine euro I think,...
6 July 2005
War of the Worlds [based on book] by H.G. Wells dir. by Stephen Spielberg
You know the way you go to see a film that you’ve heard is crap, you have these really low expectations so the film turns out to be quite good. Well,...
5 July 2005
The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce
ISBN: 0753818426 I’ve read a few books now by Joyce, and this has to be my favourite so far. Set during, and just after the London Blitz of WWI, this book...
4 July 2005
Batman Begins [based on comics] by Bob Kane dir. by Christopher Nolan
Ignore all the previous films, this is new Batman origin film. And we get it all, from the fall down the well to the parents being gunned down in an alley....
4 July 2005
In My Father’s Den [based on book] by Maurice Gee dir. by Brad McGann
A cynical, war weary, world-renowned journalist returns home, for the first time in 17 years, in order to attend his father’s funeral. But once back in small town New Zealand he...
3 July 2005
Mr & Mrs Smith dir. by Doug Liman
I really didn’t think that this film would be all that great. The trailers made it look silly, stupid, and highly annoying. But then I saw a couple of positive seeming...
27 June 2005
Cult TV
So what exactly makes a show a cult tv show then? * 1 (2) Doctor Who (never really watched any of it) * 2 (1) Star Trek (Does this refer to...
16 June 2005
Lost 1.04 – Walkabout dir. by Jack Bender
Okay, so far we know that there are around 48 survivors of the plane crash, that there is some huge weird beast living on the island, that there are polar bears in the jungle, and that people aren’t straightforward (although I guess we should know that from real life right?).
This episode concentrates on Locke, the more-than-slightly odd fella.
8 June 2005
The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O'Brien
I’ve read a few of these books since seeing Master and Commander: The far side of the world film which was roughly based on two of O’Briens books. As with the...
7 June 2005
Sin City [based on comic] by Frank miller dir. by Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rogriguez
It is hard to know how to describe this film, I suppose I could say that Sin City has three stories, each based on a different graphic novel by Miller. Or...
7 June 2005
Lost 1.03 – Tabula Rasa dir. by Jack Bender, John Polson
This basically follows on from episode one. We learn a bit more about some of the survivors, mainly through flash-back. But overall I’m still failing to see why this has been...
1 June 2005
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
I really liked this book. The writing was simple and straight-forward but wonderful. Dwyer Hickey makes Tatty, the character, come alive, and gives her a voice of her own. A voice...
27 May 2005