Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099468093 Heyer’s romance novels show the reader that your story doesn’t have to be original to be entertaining, and that predictability isn’t always a bad thing. By the time you’ve...
13 September 2006
Angel-A dir. by Luc Besson
Don’t you just hate when a film you’ve been enjoying falls to pieces in the final third? Angel-A starts off well. We meet André as he tries to talk his way...
2 August 2006
April Lady by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 043432826X – Georgette Heyer There was a silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension Nell is in a little spot of bother....
14 July 2006
The Lake House dir. by Alejandro Agresti
I didn’t think I’d enjoy this film. When I first heard about it I didn’t think I’d bother to go see, but then I read some reviews that persuaded me to...
10 July 2006
Slither dir. by James Gunn
I’ll be honest, at first I only wanted to go see Slither in order to support Nathan Fillion. But the trailers made it look entertaining, and the reviews were pretty good,...
2 May 2006
Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
Prviously published as The Transformation of Philip Jettan: A Comedy of Manners ISBN: 434328014 c.1923 If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurst and Brighthelmstone, inland a little,...
20 April 2006
Corpse Bride dir. by Mike Johnson, Tim Burton
Poor old Victor just can’t get his through his wedding rehearsal, can’t remember his lines, bumps into things, sets the bride’s mother on fire. It is all enough to send anyone...
22 October 2005
The 40 Year Old Virgin dir. by Judd Apatow
Well, it has taken me a while, but I’ve finally gotten around to going to see this film. And I don’t really have all that much to say about it. I...
27 September 2005
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099426145 The thing about these Heyer books is that you always know how it is going to end up, but it doesn’t matter. When Sir Horace heads off to South...
21 July 2005
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
Mr & Mrs Smith dir. by Doug Liman
I really didn’t think that this film would be all that great. The trailers made it look silly, stupid, and highly annoying. But then I saw a couple of positive seeming...
27 June 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
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