Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
ISBN: 1904233074 They said later that he rode into the village on a horse the color of buttermilk, but I saw him walk out of the wood Rois has always been...
14 June 2006
The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge
This isn’t the sort of book I normally would have picked up, if I hadn’t recently read The Little White Horse I wouldn’t have been tempted by this. But there it...
7 June 2006
Slither dir. by James Gunn
I’ll be honest, at first I only wanted to go see Slither in order to support Nathan Fillion. But the trailers made it look entertaining, and the reviews were pretty good,...
2 May 2006
Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
Prviously published as The Transformation of Philip Jettan: A Comedy of Manners ISBN: 434328014 c.1923 If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurst and Brighthelmstone, inland a little,...
20 April 2006
On Another Man’s Wound by Ernie O'Malley
ISBN: 094796231x c1936 This book is an attempt to show the background of the struggle from 1916 to 1921 between an Empire and an unarmed people. The title of this book...
15 April 2006
The Dark [based on book] by Simon Maginn dir. by John Fawcett
With atmospheric camera work over waves the opening credits of this film make way for Adele and her daughter Sarah as they drive through a remote part of Wales, looking for...
12 April 2006
The Medici Guns by Martin Woodhouse, Robert Ross
ISBN: none All day long, under a yellow and smoking Tuscan sky, the two huge guns vomited fire. The Medici Guns is set in the 1400’s in Italy, mostly centred on...
6 April 2006
Inside Man dir. by Spike Lee
You know Clive Owen is an actor that puzzles me. I always think that he could do a lot better than the films I’ve seen him in. King Arthur was a...
26 March 2006
V for Vendetta [based on comic] by Alan Moore dir. by James McTeigue
I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by how good this film was. Then again I had been expecting rubbish, and as we all know low expectations makes it...
22 March 2006
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Northern Lights / The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass First line [The Golden Compass]: Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to...
12 March 2006
Capote [based on book] by Gerald Clarke dir. by Bennett Miller
Truman Capote is best known for writing In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and this film deals with the six year it took him to write the true crime novel...
8 March 2006
Mirrormask dir. by Dave McKean
I’ll admit to being a Neil Gaiman fan, so I’ve been waiting for this film for quite a while, and although I try not read reviews of films I haven’t seen,...
5 March 2006
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