Wedding Crashers dir. by David Dobkin
I was expected some mindless entertainment, with a few laughs. Instead I got mindless entertainment, plenty of insanity and loads of laughs. The basic plot is fairly simple: two guys use...
16 July 2005
The Descent dir. by Neil Marshall
When I first saw the trailer for this in the cinema I wasn’t going to go see. I haven’t gone to see a horror film in the cinema since Cabin Fever...
15 July 2005
The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce
ISBN: 0753818426 I’ve read a few books now by Joyce, and this has to be my favourite so far. Set during, and just after the London Blitz of WWI, this book...
4 July 2005
Batman Begins [based on comics] by Bob Kane dir. by Christopher Nolan
Ignore all the previous films, this is new Batman origin film. And we get it all, from the fall down the well to the parents being gunned down in an alley....
4 July 2005
Time traveler’s wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Author: Audrey Niffengger
I’ve listed this under chick-lit as it is basically a romance story, with a little bit of sci-fi (in the form of time travel) thrown in. The plot revolves around Clare and Henry, who meet when Clare was 6 and Henry 36. But marry when Clare was 22 and Henry 30.
27 May 2005
Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge
At 22 she dreamed of being a ballerina, yet she ended up working for and “liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived.” In this book she simply retells her experiences,...
18 May 2005
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
0330327909 I read George’s Memoirs of Cleopatra a year or two ago, and really enjoyed it, so when I spotted this in the bargain basement I figured I may as well...
22 March 2005
The Woodsman dir. by Nicole Kassell
Went to see The Woodsman starring Kevin Bacon last week. Was a very interesting film, but not one I’m gonna review, as such, for the simple reason that the subject matter...
27 February 2005
Hero dir. by Zhang Yimou
If you’ve seen any trailers for this film you might be tempted to think of it as this year’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It isn’t. First of all it isn’t quite...
28 September 2004
Hellboy [based on comics] by Mike Mignola dir. by Guillermo del Toro
Before I had heard about this film I had never heard of the comics, never really heard of the character of Hellboy at all, so I wasn’t “mad fer it.” But,...
10 September 2004
Capturing the Friedmans dir. by Andrew Jareki
Starring the family as themselves. This is a documentary about a family, maybe a little on the eccentric side, but seeming quite normal nontheless and what happens when the father is...
15 July 2004
The Fog Of War dir. by Errol Morris
I saw the trailer for this when I went to see Van Helsing, it stood out because I hadn’t seen it before. Yes the gorram “day after tomorrow” trailer was showing....
12 May 2004
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