Rome 1.07 – Pharsalus dir. by Timothy Van Patten
Well if Chicken has learned anything it may be not to curse the gods, but somehow I doubt it. After the storms of the last episode he and Lamb are left...
14 December 2005
Rome 1.06 – Egeria dir. by Alan Poul
Rome ep1.06 – Chicken, Lamb, Anto, very little Caesar.
1 December 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
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
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
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
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
Troy [based on book] by Homer dir. by Wolfgang Peterson
based on poem by Homer So the Iliad up on the big screen. The most expensive film ever made. Bound to be rubbish right? Well it isn’t great, but it is...
19 October 2005
Pride and Prejudice [based on book] by Jane Austen dir. by Joe Wright
Sometimes directors really make you think, make you stop and consider their work, make you want to never ever see anything in the cinema ever again because they have killed any...
26 September 2005
The Bull Raid by Calo Gebbler
ISBN: 1405212551 This is a YA book based on the Irish legend of The Táin. Cúchulainn is the legendary Ulster warrior who is forced to defend the province from the Connacht...
18 September 2005
Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465833 This is the sequel to These Old Shades, and deals with the Duke of Avon’s son; the Marquis of Vidal. He is as much a rake as his father...
6 September 2005
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brien
Book 11 ISBN: 0006499260 Someone mentions Jack Aubrey and at once you think of sea battles and naval history, you may not think of Stock Exchange frauds and court cases, but...
27 August 2005
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