Film review: Time Bandits (1981), directed by Terry Gilliam Kevin (Craig Warnock) is a boy living with his parents somewhere in suburban Britain. One evening, a knight bursts in through his wardrobe ...
Film review: The Hitcher (2007), directed by Dave Meyers This film in a sentence: College kids on road trip pick up psychotic hitchhiker who tries to kill them. Eyecandy (and yucky gore) awaits! Jim ...
Epic tea time with Alan Rickman. (Thanks Leffe! :D)
Came across a site where you can watch a trailer for a film the Hellboy fandom thinks should be made. Im not exactly in the Hellboy fandom, but the best thing about Hellboy II: The Golden Army was Pr...
Film review: Tropic Thunder (2008), directed by Ben Stiller We didnt know a lot about this film when it first came out, but for some reason, we ended up seeing it at the cinema ... and bought it on B...
Short story review: Zombies Ate My Muslim by Ted Mahsun (Amazon Kindle, 2011) All he wants is to have a simple life. And that simple life he wants to spend with his celebrity girlfriend, Barbra Strei...
Film review: Rumor Has It... (2005), directed by Rob Reiner In the early 1960s, a book called The Graduate was published. Rumour around Pasadena said it was based on a true story, about a scandal in ...
Thought Id wish the man a happy birthday, basically because I woke up this morning, saw it was 7 February and my first thought was not "in 2005, I started working in a callcentre - in 2007, I had...
Film review: The Cat and the Canary (1978), directed by Radley Metzger Based on a play by John Willard, The Cat and the Canary is a film in the style of the boardgame Cluedo, but with a more sinister...
Film review: Anna and the King (1999), directed by Andy Tennant In the 1860s, a British widow, Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster), and her son Louis (Tom Felton), come to Siam (Thailand) to teach the King...
TV series review: Camelot, series 1 (2011) Sometimes you look at a show and you think "well thank Gods for that" when you hear theyve been cancelled after, or during, the first series. Others...
TV series review: Spy, series 1 (2011), directed by Ben Taylor, written by Simeon Goulden One of the unexpected pleasures of 2011 was finding Sky1s new comedy series Spy. I caught it almost by accide...
Music album review: Thomas Anders Strong (Oriflame, 2010 + Amazon MP3, 2011) Why Do You Cry? (Strong Version) (03:44) Stay With Me (04:01) Make You (03:46) Stop! (03:14) You Will Be Mine (04:13) Sudd...
Film review: Back to the Secret Garden (2001), directed by Michael Tuchner This is the sort of thing Hallmark will come up with if you give them half a chance. Which obviously someone did. If that pe...
Back in 2010, there was an idea for a fanblogging event, where the current Richard Armitage fanblogs would participate, highlighting Richard Armitages work and/or his fans for a whole week, and this ...
Film review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), directed by Michael Bay In this third, and what we can only hope is the last installment of the re-booted Transformers franchise (but you know it w...
TV film review: The Borrowers (2011), directed by Tom Harper If yesterdays review of the 1997 version of The Borrowers could be summed up with "we are not amused", how would the latest attemp...
Film review: The Borrowers (1997), directed by Peter Hewitt Based on Mary Nortons books about the Borrowers, is this1997 adaptation (and I use that term loosely), where the Clocks are a family of ...
The Winter It Is Past The winter it is past, and the summer comes at last And the small birds, they sing on evry tree; Now evry thing is glad, while I am very sad, Since my true love is parted from m...
Film review: From Time to Time (2009), directed by Julian Fellowes If this costume drama feels familiar, its because its a mixture of a lot of familiar stories. Youve got elements of Narnia (WW2), To...
... Also known as "stuff I do when I really should be doing a lot of other stuff". *cough* To start off with, lets look at when books were released and the ratings I gave them. That shows tha...
Film review: Conan the Barbarian (2011), directed by Marcus Nispel Remember the film from somewhere in the 1980s where Arnold Schwartzenegger brandished a big sword? I dont, Ive never seen it. Nor ha...
Hollywoods done it again, announcing a re-make of a film that is perfectly fine as it is: The Princess Bride. Weve heard rumours of a Dirty Dancing re-make, and I think Top Gun was another one. And n...
Book review: Department 19 by Will Hill (HarperCollinsChildrensBooks, 2011) In a secret supernatural battle thats been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised – and theyre not woo...
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Film review: Your Highness (2011), directed by David Gordon Green, written by Danny McBride & Ben Best Some time early last year, I came across a trailer to a film that looked to be rather funny....
Film review: The Big Lebowski (1998), directed by Joel Coen and Etan Coen The Dude abides ... at #133 on IMDbs Top 250 list, in a Coen Brothers story about a very laid back man known to everyone as &...
Film review: My Brilliant Career (1979), directed by Gillian Armstrong Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) is a determined and headstrong young woman Fiery Redhead in rural Australia. She wants to have A Car...
Book review: Thursday Next #5: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008 [2007]) Thursday Next is back. And this time its personal ... Literary Detective Thursday Next is off...
Richard, Richard, Richard ... Every time you enter my dreamscape, you leave confusion in your wake. Okay, last time it wasnt very confusing, just surprising. This, however, takes the proverbial biscu...
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