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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
31 May 2007
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