23 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: future
8 Stars
5 Comments
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. For generations people have lived in the silo, the only look at the outside they get is on the screens. But the cameras are outsides, … Continue reading
26 September 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: animal-human relationships, contemporary fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: 1970s, USA - Alaska
8 Stars
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Received free from NetGalley Written in 1972 this is the story of Miyax, whose English name is Julie, and her attempt to run away to San Fransicso. When the story begins she is alone in the wilderness. A nearby wolf-pack … Continue reading
10 April 2011
Genre: sff
Setting: Dorset, future
2 Stars
3 Comments
9781848875258 #1 in the Chung Kuoseries A thin layer of mist wreathed the meadows all the way to reeds that traced the meandering path of the river. It is the year 2064, twenty years or so since The Collapse, which … Continue reading
10 January 2009
Cast: David Kross, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Thomas Kretschmann
Script: David Hare
Genre: drama
Setting: 1950s, Germany
4 Comments
based on book, Der Vorleser, by Bernhard Schlink In Germany, 1958, Michael Berg is feeling unwell. He wanders through the streets for a while before almost collapsing in the entrance to an apartment block. He vomits. A passing woman helps … Continue reading
1 November 2008
Genre: sff
7 Comments
ISBN: 0340829753 Book 1 of The Dark Tower series. Read for the RIP III Challenge ; Elsewhere The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed This is the first book in King’s seven book series, The … Continue reading
29 May 2008
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: Newford
2 Comments
ISBN: 0330339591 Once Upon a Time Challenge ; More reviews Katherine Mulley had been dead for five years and two months, the morning Isabelle received the letter from her. I’ve read a few of De Lint’s books in recent years … Continue reading
7 November 2007
Cast: Alex O'Loughlin, James Black, Jason Dohring, Shannyn Sossamon, Shoshana Bush, Sophia Myles
Script: Ron Koslow, Trevor Munson
Genre: sff
7 Stars
7 Comments
Look, this is a new series with a vampire detective, so I hereby promise that there will be many and varied references to how much I miss Angel[1] but it does have Jason Dohring, so I’m keeping an open mind. … Continue reading
21 March 2007
Cast: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken Watanabe, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Takumi Bando, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Script: Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
Genre: Action, war
Setting: C20th
7 Stars
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based on the book Picture Letters from Commander in Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Tsuyoko YoshidoI’m not sure what I was really expecting from this film; but I know I didn’t get it. The companion film to Eastwood’s Flag’s of our … Continue reading
25 July 2006
Cast: Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Matthew Fox
Script: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Genre: drama, sff
Setting: The island
3 Stars
21 Comments
Last episode of season 2 of Lost was on last night. And can I just say that this has to be the most pointless telly watching I have ever done. I don’t like the characters. Even Charlie is annoying at … Continue reading
2 April 2006
Cast: Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano, Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Thembi Nyandeni, Zenzo Ngqobe
Script: Gavin Hood
Genre: drama
Setting: South Africa
9 Stars
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This traces a few days in the life of the teenage gang leader Tsotsi. When we first meet him, he and his friends are playing dice, deciding what to do that evening. And what they do is murder a man, … Continue reading