I still haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), but, what with the 23 December release of the U.S. movie adaptation of the first book, directed by David Fincher (Alien 3, se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin ( Read more... )

On Thursday, 21 July, I managed to see Kingdom of Heaven, the epic English-German-Spanish movie production of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf's ("Salah al-Din Yusuf's," or Saladin's) conquest of Jerusalem from Western and Northern European Crusaders on Friday, 2 October 1187, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, ( Read more... )