5 July 2012
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Denis Leary, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen, Rhys Ifans, Sally Fields
Script: Alvin Sargent, James Vanderbilt, Steve Kloves
Genre: sff
Setting: New York
4 Stars
2 Comments
Do I need to give a recap to this story? I mean, you know that it is a Spider-man film, and if I tell you it is an origin story well, I’m sure you’ll figure out that there will be … Continue reading
The Strain Trilogy #3 I really enjoyed the first book in this series, The Strain worked really well as a competent vampire story. It was creepy and horrible and very readable. The second book, The Fall, I didn’t enjoy quite … Continue reading
Peter Lake was once in training to be a mechanic, but a tragedy meant that he was cast out of that life, and found himself with the Short Tails. A New York gang run by Pearly Soames. There he became … Continue reading
10 December 2011
Call no: 133.1
Genre: non-fiction, occultism
Setting: 1980s, 1990s, New York
6 Stars
1 Comment
In 1982 Elaine Mercado and her family moved from an apartment into what they hoped would be their dream home. This house, in the Gravesend section of south Brooklyn, needed some work, but the family felt they could convert this … Continue reading
22 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: contemporary, New York
6 Stars
5 Comments
Mythology and Reality collide! So the blurb on the back of this book tell me. The mythical winged stallion Pegasus crash lands on a rooftop in modern day New York, fleeing a battle which has destroyed much of Olympus. Emily, … Continue reading
8 May 2011
Call no: 937
Genre: history, non-fiction
Setting: Italy, New York
7 Stars
2 Comments
It is hard to blurb this book. On the one hand it is about Vesuvius and volcanic explosions and disasters both natural and man-made. But it is also a book about the origins of the earth, of the universe, and about how precarious our existence is. How so much of what we are today is dependent on natural events a thousand years ago, or a millennia ago, or so long ago that it is almost pointless to count the time because it is so difficult to grasp those sort of numbers.
30 January 2011
Cast: Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Script: Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin, Mark Heyman
Genre: drama
Setting: New York
9 Stars
3 Comments
Nina Sayers is a ballerina in the New York Ballet. She lives with her mother, and her whole live revolves around dancing. There is a new production starting and Nina is determined to get a starring role in Swan Lake. … Continue reading
26 October 2010
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: New York
5 Comments
by Guillarmo de Toro & Chuck Hogan
After the events of cite>The Strain New York is in chaos, and the rest of the world is following in a downward spiral. Ephraim Goodweather is trying to keep his son out of the clutches of his vampiric ex-wife, these vampires feel a real need to turn their “Dear Ones”, human love turned into hunger. And Abraham Setrakian is busy trying to track down The Master, as he learns that the events happening are even worse than he could have suspected. Along with Fet, the rat exterminator turned vampire-hunter, they are attempting the impossible, to stop the vampire contagion spreading across the world.
6 July 2010
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: New York
7 Comments
A plane lands at JFK airport and almost instantly it descends into darkness. Air traffic control get no response. It stopped dead on the runway. There are no lights, no engine noises, and no sounds. Response units break in and find a dead body. Instantly people’s thoughts turn to terrorism; is this some sort of gas attack? Or a biological agent?
Abraham Setrakian, the owner of a small downtown pawnshop is one of the few who knows the truth about the horror to come.
11 April 2010
Script: Ronald Shusett
Genre: drama
Setting: New York, USA
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I’ve recently rewatched The Sopranos[1] well, some of the episodes I never caught in the first place, so in many ways it wasn’t a rewatch, although I knew where it was all headed. I had forgotten so much of what … Continue reading
