7 January 2012
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, Goran Visnjic, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard
Script: Steig Larsson, Steven Zaillian
Genre: detective & mystery
Setting: Sweden
8 Stars
5 Comments
I haven’t read any of the book in the Millenium series, nor have I seen the Swedish version of this film. So I can’t comment on how well or not this adapts the source material. I will say that it … Continue reading
1 November 2010
Call no: 800
Genre: general fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: 1980s, London
6 Comments
This is the sort of book I don’t usually read. You know the ones, from the “sad story” section of the bookshop. The misery-books as I call them. But a few years ago I’d heard of Melvin Burgess as an author to look out for. I’ve read his Lady : My life as a Bitch and to be honest I wasn’t all that impressed, but I’ll always give an author a second go. So I tried this one.
In the 1980′s Nick Dane is growing up as an average, if bright kid. He comes from a single parent family, and his mother has a secret. She never got off the drugs, not completely. And in the course of having a “taste” she accidentally overdoses and Nick is left all alone in the world. Soon he finds himself carted off to a “home” for boys, and soon learns that the violence and random beatings are not the worse this place has to offer.
ISBN: 9780385613231 Liga’s father fiddled with the fire, fiddled and fiddled. Then he stood up, very suddenly. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while. It’s been stirring up quite a bit of controversy, what with its storyline … Continue reading
21 April 2008
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: 1910s, Canada
4 Comments
ISBN: 0140050116 See also: The Stay at Home Bookworm ; Wikipedia Prologue She was standing in the middle of the railroad tracks. Her head was bowed and her right front hoof was raised as if she rested. The Wars tells … Continue reading
5 February 2008
Cast: Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Atossa Leoni, Homayoun Ershadi, Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzada, Zekeria Ebrahimi
Script: David Benioff
Genre: drama
Setting: Afghanistan
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based on book by Khaled Hosseini I haven’t read the book this film is based on so I can’t comment on how well the story makes the translation from one medium to the other. The film tells the story of … Continue reading
29 June 2007
Cast: Kerry Condon, Kevin McKidd, Lindsay Duncan, Polly Walker, Ray Stevenson
Script: Scott Buck
Genre: drama, historical fiction
Setting: Ancient world, Rome
8 Stars
1 Comment
Things aren’t really going to well for Vorenus, are they? Dreaming about his wife’s suicide/attempt to distract Vorenus from killing her son. Waking up knowing that it is all true. Becoming a “son of hades”[1] Being a general grump, although … Continue reading
14 October 2005
Call no: 920
Genre: biography, non-fiction
7 Stars
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ISBN: 033041836x At its most basic this book can be classified as a rape memoir, and why would anyone want to read anything like that? Not for entertainment, thats certain. Lucky starts off with an account of Sebold’s rape, all … Continue reading
28 June 2005
4 Comments
Alive in Limerick gives a synopsis of the attack on a couple, and the subsequent gang-rape of a woman in Limerick which is back in the news because of the sentencing of Stephen Barry to 21 years in prison. Continue reading
15 November 2003
Cast: James Caan, John Hurt, Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany
Script: Lars Von Trier
Genre: drama, thriller
10 Stars
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This is not a film for everyone, as I watched it quite a few members of the audience left. One couple even left with less the 20 minutes to go, nevertheless I am going to recommend it because I really … Continue reading