The Eagle [based on the book] by Rosemary Sutcliff dir. by Kevin Macdonald
A long time ago I read Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth, the book this film is based on. It was a very long time ago, I’m pretty sure I...
27 May 2019
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
I loved this book. I pretty much read it in one sitting, with occasional breaks for a cup of tea and taking the dogs outside. It is wonderful. It is a...
29 December 2018
Venom dir. by Ruben Fleischer
I really wan’t expecting much from this, but it stars Tom Hardy, and so must be watched. And you know what, it wasn’t as bad as I had feared. I mean,...
6 October 2018
Catfight dir. by Onur Tukel
From the title of this film you’re probably going to expect some bitchiness and maybe hairpulling. Well you get that, plus a whole heap of brutal brutal fighting. Veronica and Ashley...
4 June 2017
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott
book 1 in The Black Wolves trilogy. First up, the blurb-y bit, stolen from Goodreads because I cannot condense what this book is about any better than they did : An...
11 November 2015
Big Hero 6 dir. by Chris Williams, Dan Hall
Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) graduated High School at 13, and since then he’s been spending his time at Bot Fights. He hustles older robot controllers. His older brother is not impressed....
31 January 2015
Guardians of the Galaxy [based on comics] by Andy Lanning, Dan Abnett dir. by James Gunn
Twenty six years after the death of his mother, and twenty six years after he was abducted by aliens, Peter Quill is on the planet Morag, hunting for an orb. Just...
4 August 2014
A princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book 1 in the Barsoom series In post-Civil War Arizona John Carter has found a gold rich mine. His partner sets out to buy machinery to let them work it properly,...
8 September 2012
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End dir. by Gore Verbinksi
Surprisingly I liked this. I loved the first, but was bored during the second, so I wasn’t expecting great things from the third in the series. Maybe this was the reason...
31 May 2007
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