Hero dir. by Zhang Yimou
If you’ve seen any trailers for this film you might be tempted to think of it as this year’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It isn’t. First of all it isn’t quite...
28 September 2004
Hellboy [based on comics] by Mike Mignola dir. by Guillermo del Toro
Before I had heard about this film I had never heard of the comics, never really heard of the character of Hellboy at all, so I wasn’t “mad fer it.” But,...
10 September 2004
King Arthur dir. by Antoine Fuqua
This film suffered from many poor reviews. Both from critics and, in my case, from friends who found it boring. Course I don’t read reviews before I go see films, I try to make up my own mind. Still I wasn’t expecting a lot from this film.
I’ve never really been a huge fan of Arthur films. First Knight was really really crap, imo, and Excaliber was a bit wierd. Plus there is the whole Monty Python thing :)
So why’d I go to see it?
Ray Winstone of course!
20 August 2004
Robin of Sherwood dir. by Richard Carpenter
I don’t know if I actually remember this from when it was originally shown on RTE, or if it was repeats. Then again, the last series, the third, was made in...
22 July 2004
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552149411By my count this is the 28th Discworld novel, although if you include the “Younger Readers’” discworld books then you get 30. So take your pick, I don’t think it...
20 July 2004
Capturing the Friedmans dir. by Andrew Jareki
Starring the family as themselves. This is a documentary about a family, maybe a little on the eccentric side, but seeming quite normal nontheless and what happens when the father is...
15 July 2004
Belleville Rendezvous dir. by Slyvain Chomet
This is film that got quite a lot of attention when it came out, but I will admit to being a little put of by the trailer, and as it didn’t...
15 July 2004
Amelie dir. by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Another film that I kept meaning to rent but never got round to it, till C4 showed it tonight. I really don’t know how to describe this film. It is quirky...
15 July 2004
Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan
ISBN: 0743252276 Nathan is dead. Only problem is that he doesn’t really know what’s going on. He is stuck with his family, trying to fill in the holes in his memories,...
14 July 2004
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
Book 8 in the Sword of Truth series Sometimes you know, people really make me wonder. The Sword of Truth series of books started off fine. Fairly regular “epic fantasy” with...
11 July 2004
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0061056219 Loved this book. Pretty much devoured it in one day, and it isn’;t the shortest of books. The version I read was published by EOS and is categorised as...
7 July 2004
The Wolf King by Alice Borchardt
ISBN: 0006483879 Found this to be a very disappointing read. I read the previous two in this series: The Silver Wolf and The Night of the Wolf and while neither of...
11 June 2004