Book Excerpt: Fargoer – Petteri Hannila
May 18, 2013
Guest Post: Zeppelin Zeitgeist – J Cunningham
May 11, 2013
Guest Post: Margot Justes
May 4, 2013
Book Review: The Patient Ecstasy of Fraulein Braun – Lavonne Mueller
Apr 30, 2013
Book Excerpt: Storm Warning – E.A. O’Neal
Apr 27, 2013
Guest Post: Delicious Pastiche – W.S. Lacey
Apr 20, 2013
Guest Post: Michael Drakich
Apr 13, 2013
Celebrating Bloggers 2013
Apr 10, 2013
Guest Post: Kathy Steinemann
Apr 6, 2013
Guest Post and Excerpt: Bear Season – Bernie Hafeli
Mar 30, 2013
Review: District 9 When I first read the plot for District 9 I assumed it would be just a standard sci-fi film, hopefully a good one, but certainly not offering anything vastly original. Neill Blomkamp’s film, however, turned out to be something of a big surprise but while it endeavours to be different there is [...]
Review: Battle in Heaven Carlos Reygadas’ Battle in Heaven is the story of Marcos (Marcos Hernandez) who is a driver for the General. At the outset, Marcos and his wife (Bertha Ruiz) are selling clocks and sweets in a subway and coming to terms with the death of a baby they have kidnapped with the intention [...]
Review: Mega Python Vs Gatoroid When Tiffany was topping the charts with I Think We’re Alone Now back in the eighties you would have been laughed at had you taken her to one side and suggested that nearly twenty-five years later she’d be starring in horror films with large monsters! After starring in Mega Piranha (2010), [...]
Review: King of Fighters XII (PS3) The latest installment of King of Fighters comes in honour of the series’ 15th birthday and has already divided the critics. Entering the competitive market of fighting games, King of Fighters XII proves to be both rewarding and at times frustrating. There is no story or background to King [...]
Review: Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell’s dystopian novel is, in my opinion, one of the finest books ever written. I have long had my own image of the society Orwell imagined in the future but I was fascinated to see how Michael Radford’s adaptation would look. The story focuses on Winston Smith (John Hurt) who lives in London [...]
Review: The Spirit of the Beehive Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive tells the tale of a remote Spanish village in 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Our focus is on one family – Fernando (Fernando Fernan Gomez) is the father who spends his days tending to beehives and writing at his [...]
Review: Manhunter Anthony Hopkins’ role as Dr Hannibal Lecktor is legendary in the film world but before that Oscar-winning turn in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Michael Mann adapted Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon and made Manhunter. I’d always wanted to see this one which is still highly regarded despite the massive appeal of Lambs but [...]
Review: Dread I sincerely doubt there has ever been anyone in history that hasn’t been afraid of something. Anthony DiBlasi’s Dread, based on a story by horror master, Clive Barker, is a gritty exploration of fear, getting to the heart of what a group of people are truly afraid of and seeing if they can face [...]
The Beatles – It’s Only Love (1965) Not a single but certainly one of the best of The Beatles’ songs from their Help! album which was first released in 1965. Primarily written and sung by John Lennon, the song was amazingly considered one of Lennon’s least favourite compositions and even Paul McCartney once referred to the song [...]
Review: In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis’ In the Valley of Elah tells the story of Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) whose son Mike (Jonathan Tucker) has returned from fighting in Iraq and has gone AWOL. Hank and his wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) are naturally concerned and Hank begins looking into his son’s disappearance. [...]
We are delighted to welcome Michael Drakich, author of Lest The Dew Rust Them, who joins us to share a guest post about the competitive world of being noticed on Amazon. Guest Post I would like to thank Donna and David Brown of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dave for the opportunity to do a guest post on [...]
Review: Blackout Many of us have a phobia or fear. There are plenty of them whether it’s a fear or heights or some material item which the majority of us can look at and use without thinking but other people cannot stand to be around them. Orwell’s 1984 gave victims targeted by Big Brother a [...]
Review: Dead Silence I can remember a handful of ventriloquist acts when I was growing up in the eighties and nineties and was always impressed by them. Some people don’t share that sentiment, of course, and others find the ventriloquist dolls a tad spooky. James Wan’s Dead Silence may shatter your previous fondness for ventriloquism, [...]
Review: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Partly based on serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, the film focuses on the everyday life of Henry (Michael Rooker), a serial killer that tends to target women. Henry is sharing an apartment with Otis (Tom Fowles) who he met in prison and at the outset they have a [...]
Review: Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine is both a romance and a drama, depicting the lives of Dean Pereira (Ryan Gosling) and Cynthia Heller (Michelle Williams) at different points in their lives. In the present they are married, have a daughter but all is not well. Cynthia is a nurse while Dean is a [...]
First of all, my thanks to Terri Giuliano Long, author of In Leah’s Wake and the upcoming Nowhere to Run, for hosting Celebrating Bloggers 2013. Blogging & Bloggers The first advice I would ever give to an aspiring author is to start a blog. The world of blogging is such a vast and multitudinous one that [...]
Beneath a Steel Sky (Amiga) Point and click adventures were never better than the Monkey Island series though there were many competitors that tried to steal the crown from the hapless pirate, Guybrush Threepwood. Amongst the serious rivals was Beneath a Steel Sky, a dystopian adventure set in a futuristic Australian city. I remember owning [...]
Review: Alice in Wonderland Tim Burton has been one of the best directors since first appearing in the 1980s but some of his more recent efforts haven’t been up to his usual high standards. While the likes of Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Ed Wood (1994) saw Burton at the top of his game [...]
