Witnesses: Inside the Easter Rising by Annie Ryan
ISBN: 1905483708 On Monday 24 April 1916, the day the Easter Rising began, a young Trinity college graduate left the house of a friend who lived near South Circular Road With...
20 March 2006
Life on Mars – season 1 dir. by Ashley Pharoah, Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan
I’m not really sure why I started watching this show. The trailers made it look very poor. Some crap cop police show, only with time travel thrown in. I was half...
27 February 2006
Good Night, and Good Luck dir. by George Clooney
It is the 1950’s, and McCarthyism is rife in America as the hunt for reds under bed trundles on. In CBS Ed McMurrow begins to highlight McCarthy’s scare tactics and methods...
25 February 2006
Munich dir. by Steven Spielberg
Based on the events that followed the terrorist attack on the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, this film has a lot of political baggage. There are those who see it as...
12 February 2006
Jarhead [based on book] by Anthony Swofford dir. by Sam Mendes
Jarhead is the story of one young Marine as he goes through training and then into Iraq during the early 90’s. It isn’t an overtly political film, although Kruger has a...
4 February 2006
Memoirs of a Geisha [based on book] by Arthur Golden dir. by Rob Marshall
In short, this is a film that is pretty to look at, but boring to watch. Okay, I’ll say a bit more about it: Memoirs of a Geisha has been somewhat...
3 February 2006
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 0140108920 ; A Philip Marlowe Mystery #1 It was about eleven o’;clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in...
10 January 2006
Brokeback Mountain [based on book] by Annie Proulx dir. by Ang Lee
In a way it is a pity that this film has received so much press coverage, it’d be interesting to watch it not knowing what was going to happen between Ennis...
8 January 2006
The Producers dir. by Susan Stroman
If you go see this film looking for nothing more than simple entertainment then you should come out entirely satisfied. It made me laugh, although the songs, with the exception of...
8 January 2006
Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noel) dir. by Christian Carion
Before the opening credits rolled on this film I had been thinking that I really wasn’t in th emood for seeing a foreign film that I’d have to read. And then...
4 January 2006
Remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable
Okay I’ve been doing a little messing with the layout. Added a link to my most recent Del.icio.us links, and have got the gravatars working. And made the text a little...
17 December 2005
Cinderella Man dir. by Ron Howard
– Joe Gould Based on the true story of James J Braddock. A boxing film. Set during the Depression. Consider all of these things and you may be thinking that this...
16 September 2005
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