Gabriel’s gate by Tom Galvin
With the demise of the Celtic Tiger and the onset of the “economic doom and gloom” so popular in the media at the moment the young people of Ireland looked at...
5 January 2012
Eclipse [based on the book] by Stephenie Meyer dir. by David Slade
Okay, so for those of you who have been wise enough to avoid all the Twilight nonsense, here is a quick catch-you-up; a young girl called Bella moves to live with...
12 July 2010
Greenberg dir. by Noah Baumbach
IMDb has this classified as a Drama and a Comedy. I’m not sure I see either. I know I didn’t enjoy it, so that rules it out as a comedy. I suppose, technically it is a work designed to be performed by actors so it qualifies as drama, but if it were up to me this would be firmly placed within the “angsty whiney shite were nothing happens” genre.
2 March 2010
The Happening dir. by M. Night Shyamalan
IMDb ; Other reviews I just don’t know. I really wanted to like this film. The few trailers I saw really seemed to hint at an interesting film. And despite the...
17 June 2008
Jumper [based on the book] by Steven Gould dir. by Doug Liman
David Rice used to be your average chump. His word, not mine. But then he discovered that he could jump; transport himself instantly from one place to another. And suddenly his...
19 February 2008
Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton
ISBN: 0515140872 Series: Anita Blake #13 /p> It was half past dawn when the phone rang. It shattered the first dreams of the night into a thousand peices so that I...
7 May 2006
American Dreamz dir. by Paul Weitz
The things you’ll do for family. Yes, I took my little sister and my cousin to see this horrible excuse for a film while I was in Sligo this weekend. It...
23 April 2006
Casanova dir. by Lasse Hallström
This is a terrible film. Terrible. And the really annoying thing is that it has virtually no redeeming qualities. Yes Heath can be nice to look at, but his “phwoar” manner...
22 February 2006
Serenity by Keith R.A. DeCandido
ISBN: 1416502882 813.54 Novelization of the film by the same name. Where do you start when you go to write a novelization? Do you just stick to the script, or go...
27 October 2005
The Pacifier dir. by Adam Shankman
Terrible, terrible film. But then again we already knew that from the poster didn’t we. And the premise was horrible. I blame Copper-copper for asking me did I want to go....
24 July 2005
Moon Dance by S.P. Somtow
ISBN: 0812511271Have no real idea why I bothered to buy this book. I picked it up, read the blurb and knew it wouldn’t be good. After all on the front cover...
16 January 2005
Signs dir. by M. Night Shyamalan
I found this to be a very disappointing film. I had enjoyed Shyamalan’s films and had hoped for something equally as good. It wasn’t even a twist that I was looking...
17 November 2003
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