In contrast to the previous review, this is a novel that I absolutely loved. There were sections that I felt were a little bogged down, but overall, this book had me gripped from the first chapter.

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Movies!

Little Big Soldier: This is Jackie Chan's 99th film and is a historical piece, set during the time of the Seven Kingdoms in China, approximately 267BC. It has everything I love in a history based film - great combat scenes, excellent sets, authentic armour and costumes. Plus Yoo Seung Jun, which is a bonus. I was really impressed with this ( Read more... )

I've seen a lot of films in the last several month but written nothing about them, so here is a movie review dump!

Films reviewed:Dhoom 2 - India (Bollywood ( Read more... )

The Last Legion.
2007, dir. Doug Lefler.This is an engaging and enjoyable film, not so much based on Roman history but more on the Matter of Britain (King Arthur legend) and as such does a pretty good job. Costumes, weapons, armor, sets are all very well done and the Ninth Legion doing the Testudo in the battle scene at the end is well worth the ( Read more... )

This was a brilliant followup to "Kill Bill 1". The performances were all superb, the direction was much more fluid and gentler in this one, and the narrative was more linear, rather than the previous film. David Carradine did an excellent job as Bill, and the fight scene between Uma Thurman and Darryl Hannah was great fun. Michael Madson was great ( Read more... )

Tarantino is one of those directors you either love or hate. I confess that his first film, Resevoir Dogs, is a personal favourite of mine, because it is such a chilling tale and the narrative of the film was the first to really experiment with the concept of circular construct in modern Hollywood cinema. His second film, Pulp Fiction, took that ( Read more... )

I wasn't really expecting a lot from this flick, it's a comic book film so its not exactly high art ( Read more... )