Rome – Season 1 dir. by Michael Apted
it has been four hundred years since the founding of the Republic, and in that time Rome has grown into a mighty power. But military might, and subjugated lands don’t mean...
19 September 2006
Little Miss Sunshine dir. by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Families are a source of much amusement and not a little tragedy. Especially when your father is a motivational speaker, whose “9 steps to winning” doesn’t seem to be working, your...
10 September 2006
A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0586216774 Reread with FantasyFavorites On a morning in the springtime of the year, when the snows of the mountains were melting and the rivers swift in their running, Aelis de...
25 June 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley dir. by Ken Loach
Opening with a hurling scene in Cork in the 1920’s this film lives entirely within the experience of the main character, Damien. A young doctor about to leave Ireland for a career in London he is pulled into the Irish War of Independence. And this film is about his fight. The film starts without any introductory text, there is no attempt made to make the viewer aware of the wider world, this is Damien’s story and only his story.
24 June 2006
The Proposition dir. by John Hillcoat
Sometimes you go to the cinema hoping for a good film, but thinking that what you are about to watch isn’t going to be fun, it may not even qualify as...
15 March 2006
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
ISBN: 0140316884 5 Vol.s in one Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver On The Tree “Where is he?” Barney hopped from one foot to...
18 February 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
Veronica Mars 1.02 – Credit Where Credit’s Due dir. by Mark Piznarski
We open with Wallace and Veronica discovering how boring their lives are, as they have no plans for the weekend. Wallace shows Veronica a flier about a party, which he vaguely...
1 January 2006
Veronica Mars 1.01 – Pilot (extended dvd version) dir. by Mark Piznarski
Veronica the marshmallow?
1 January 2006
Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Season II dir. by Joss Whedon
Spoilers cause you know this has been out for how many years now? Finally made my way through the final few episodes of Buffy, season 2 this weekend. Have to say...
20 November 2005
where we once belonged by Sia Figiel
ISBN: 0241139295 Set in Samoa where we once belonged is the coming of age story of Alofa, a 13 year old girl growing up in the village of Malaefou. I wrote...
19 October 2005
Firefly 1.01 – Serenity dir. by Joss Whedon
We open with war and death, and the fun of shooting a giant gun. And so, in a way, this opening teaser shows exactly what makes Joss Whedon’s writing so great. The humour, believable. real characters, emotion and let’s not forget the explosions, because, they are important you know. But, as well as introducing Mal and Zoe as ex-soldiers, this sequence is all about Mal. We get to see his faith and belief utterly destroyed in a single moment.
4 September 2005
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