Peter Lake was once in training to be a mechanic, but a tragedy meant that he was cast out of that life, and found himself with the Short Tails. A New York gang run by Pearly Soames. There he became … Continue reading
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28 March 2007
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Ian Richardson, James Cromwell, James McAvoy, Joe Anderson, Julie Walters, Laurence Fox, Maggie Smith
Script: Kevin Hood, Sarah Williams
Genre: biopic, historical fiction
Setting: Britain, C19th
6 Stars
11 Comments
Becoming Jane directed by Julian Jarrold
There really isn’t all that much to this film, which is loosely based on the life of Jane Austen, it is watchable but not memorable. The film amps up the real-life flirtation between Austen and Tom Lefroy to turn it … Continue reading
11 September 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: general fiction
6 Stars
6 Comments
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
ISBN: 0751537365 RonMcLarty.com; Penguin Guide This is an odd book. On the one hand I quite enjoyed it while reading it, but it never made for compelling reading, and I often put off reading it in favour of doing anything … Continue reading
17 August 2006
Cast: Bob Balaban, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cindy Cheung, Freddy RodrÃguez, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, Sarita Choudhury
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: sff
5 Stars
3 Comments
Lady in the Water directed by M. Night Shyamalan
This is an odd film. A very odd film.
Ever since The Sixth Sense Shyamalan has been known as the “twist guy” for his film endings; I don’t think that is a fair description. And while you can say that Unbreakable, Signs and The Village all had twists to their endings, the twists weren’t all that important. The films were stories about people, truth, and finding out who you are. The Lady in the water continues in this vein, but at the same time it is a very different type of film. As Shyamalan has said, it is a bedtime story. A fairy tale, for children. So it is, of course, going to be more simplistic and yet at the same time it is more complicated than that.