May 10 2008

Doomsday

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Rhona Mitra in DoomsdayWrit & Dir: Neil Marshall

  • Rhona Mitra … Eden Sinclair
  • Bob Hoskins … Bill Nelson
  • Alexander Siddig … John Hatcher
  • Malcolm McDowell … Kane
  • David O’Hara … Michael Canaris
  • Leslie Simpson … Carpenter
  • Chris Robson … Stevie Miller
  • Sean Pertwee … Dr. Talbot
  • Darren Morfitt … Dr. Ben Stirling
  • Craig Conway … Sol
  • MyAnna Buring … Cally

This film really is utterly preposterous. Unbelievable in the extreme; plot holes every where. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It still kicks ass though. Hugely enjoyable.

It is set in the future, after a virus struck Glasgow the British govt decided the only way to deal with it was to wall off Scotland. Leave the dying to the dead and make sure no one gets through. And so Scotland is abandoned. But years later the virus makes an appearance in England. So a team is sent north, through the wall to the survivors to see if they can find a cure.

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Oct 25 2007

The Road

Published by Fence under Books

Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780330447546 DDC: 813.54
Read for the RIP Challenge
See also: LibaryThing ; Darryl’s Library ; Skewed Perspectives ; Cynical Opimitsm ; Bookwomon

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.

Image of The Road This is a novel set at some unidentified point in the future when the world has pretty much come to an end. Something, we don’t know what, has brought society down. There is little food and little shelter left, and for our two main protagonists there is always the danger that they might meet someone on the road, someone who might kill them in order to take what little they have, or maybe someone who might kill them in order to eat them. They travel on, this unnamed man and unnamed boy, constantly on the road, moving trying to find something.

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Tags: 7 Stars, 813.54, apocolyptic future, Cormac McCarthy, dystopian future, end of the world, future, humanity, Pulitzer Prize Winner, RIP Challenge, sff, The Road

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