By Marc Bekoff
Many animals display their feelings openly, publicly, for anyone to see. Continue reading
10 August 2010
Genre: animal-human relationships, non-fiction
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Tag Archives: 5 Stars
17 January 2010
Cast: Claudia Karvan, Ethan Hawke, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe
Script: Gareth Edwards, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Genre: horror
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Daybreakers directed by Gareth Edwards, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
IMDb ; Official Site ; MetaCritic This film is utterly meh-worthy. It isn’t entertaining enough to be enjoyable, but isn’t bad enough to merit a walk-out. You’ll most likely forget about it two minutes after you leave the cinema. It’s … Continue reading
7 December 2009
Genre: general fiction, sff
Setting: England
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Her fearful symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
For a lot of this book I really really liked it. I never quite loved it; but for a while I did really enjoy it. The writing is great. And the premise was interesting. But it just didn’t work in the end. And I think that one of the major problems was that the character who makes this big decision, well, I just didn’t get why she made it. And I really didn’t understand why other characters went along with her. That wasn’t the only problem, it just meant that I was less forgiving of the others Continue reading
17 November 2009
Genre: historical fiction, horror
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The historian by Elizabeth Kostova
ISBN: 0316730319 In 1972 I was sixteen – young my father said to be travelling with him on his diplomatic missions. The one word that sprang into my mind, more than any other, when I finished this book was “unsatisfying”. … Continue reading
19 November 2008
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, James Cromwell, Josh Brolin, Richard Dreyfuss
Script: Stanley Weiser
Genre: biopic, political
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W. directed by Oliver Stone
This is an odd sort of a film. I mean, it clearly isn’t meant to be full of praise for George W. Bush. But at the same time it is almost gentle in its treatment of him. Presenting him as … Continue reading
16 October 2008
Cast: Anna Walton, Benno Fürman, Devon Aoki, John Malkovich, Luis Echegaray, Pras, Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee, Steve Toussaint, Thomas Jane, Tom Wu
Script: Philip Eisner
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: future
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The Mutant Chronicles directed by Simon Hunter
See also: IMDb ; Elsewhere Okay so I knew this was going to be rubbish. But then again look at that cast. How could I resist? And to be honest I was expecting something resembling a plot to show up … Continue reading
3 June 2008
Genre: horror
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Heart-shaped box by Joe Hill
ISBN: 9780575081864 See also: Other reviews ; Joe Hill Fiction.com Jude had a private collection. He had framed sketches of the seven dwarves on the wall of his studio, in between his platinum records. Judas Coyne has just bought a … Continue reading
5 May 2008
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Britain - Tudors, England, Scotland
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The thistle and the rose by Jean Plaidy
ISBN: 9780099493259 Read with Historical Favorites See also: LibraryThing ; Literature Map ; Scandalous Women ; Susan Higginbotham In an apartment of that royal palace which recently, by the command of the King, had had its name changed from Shene … Continue reading
15 April 2008
Genre: detective & mystery, historical fiction
Setting: 1950s, Ireland
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Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
ISBN: 9780330445320 Book 1 in the Quirke series See also: MetaCritic ; Grumpy Old Bookman ; PopMatters ; She was glad it was the evening mailboat she was taking, for she did not think she could have faced a morning … Continue reading