Fudoki by Kij Johnson
Princess Harueme is dying. She can feel it, a great weight inside her, so she is preparing for death. Emptying out old trunks, burning the notebooks she has spent a lifetime...
23 September 2014
Lucy dir. by Luc Besson
Lucy’s new boyfriend is trying to persuade her to deliver a briefcase for him. It’s a simple job and she’ll get well paid, he promises, after she weaseled out the fact...
23 August 2014
Godzilla dir. by Gareth Edwards
Is there a point to me doing a quick recap of a Godzilla movie plot? I mean, you all know that Godzilla means monsters and destruction, possibly Japan, and possible monster...
18 May 2014
Wild Orchids dir. by Sidney Franklin
Lillie Sterling and her husband John are travelling to Java. A second honeymoon says Lillie, while for John it is all about the business. Even aboard ship he is constantly interrupted...
25 April 2014
The Ghost Bride by Yangze Choo
Li Lan is seventeen. Her mother died of smallpox when she was very young, her father was so scarred by the disease at the same time that he withdrew from society....
27 November 2013
The Abominable by Dan Simmons
My final read for this year’s RIP In June of 1924 reports from Everest reveal that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine have vanished, missing, presumed dead in their attempt to reach...
3 November 2013
Wolf at the door by J. Damask
The Jan Xu Adventures : book 1 Jan Xu’s sister is coming home. It should be a reason to celebrate. They were very close when they were younger, but then Marianne...
25 August 2013
A town like Alice by Nevil Shute
In post World War II England Jean Paget is tracked down by a solicitor. She is the only surviving member of a client of his, and so stands to inherit his...
26 May 2013
Taken 2 dir. by Olivier Megaton
After the events of Taken life has slowly gotten back to some form of normality for Bryan Mills and his family. But in Albania the families of the men he killed...
6 October 2012
The Raid dir. by Gareth Evans
The Indonesian version of SWAT are going into battle. An apartment block has become home to the bad and the violent. A no go area that the police never visit. But...
21 May 2012
In the sea there are crocodiles by Fabio Geda
The story of Enaiatollah Akbari, trans. from the Italian by Howard Curtis When Enaiat is around ten his mother takes him from his village in Afganistan and they travel Pakistan. And...
13 May 2012
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu
I recently posted a link to some of the nebula nominees that are available to read online. And today I decided to read one, so at random i clicked a link...
25 February 2012
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