It’s that time again! Moving the backlog over from my Facebook page, here’s a gathering of various reviews over the past few months all together in one handy post! Get amongst it:
PREACHER s01 (2016)
ONE PUNCH MAN s01 (2015)
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (2016)
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (2016)
WARCRAFT (2016)
THE LOBSTER (2015)
MACBETH (2015)
GODS OF EGYPT (2016)
KEANU (2016)
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (2016)
A thief was on trial before the Sultan and sentenced to death. He asked the Sultan to spare his life.
“You don’t know it, but I am the greatest teacher in your land. If you spare my life, I promise to teach your horse to sing hymns.”
The Sultan smirked but accepted the offer. “You have a year, and if the horse cannot sing, you will be killed.”
Daily, after that, the thief spent his time singing hymns to the horse. His friends laughed as they saw him and asked what he hoped to accomplish.
“Many things can happen in a year,” the thief told them. “The Sultan may die, the horse may die, I may even die. Or, maybe the horse will learn how to sing.”
Continue reading ““THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE” – Niven & Pournelle (1974)”
One of the small concessions of the day job I’m currently working to save for overseas is the ability to keep an earbud piping things into my brain for the five or six hours of repetitive labour. Currently, the weapon of choice is a number of audiobook titles in the Top 100 Science Fiction Novels of All Time that I haven’t yet had time to get to reading, so the exercise is turning out to be an immensely satisfying two-birds-one-stone kind of venture. Over the Xmas period I managed to get through the entirety of Frank Herbert’s millennia-spanning DUNE series, Stephen King’s magnum opus THE DARK TOWER (the final/middle book read by the author himself), and Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW. Each of these is a lengthy dissection in itself, and I may yet wheel around for them but I wanted to open on something fresh. For those who have yet to read any of the titles I’ll do in this fashion, I’ll endeavour to stick to themes, context and concept in discussion in order to spare the gratifying twists in plot in all but necessary strokes that a reader/listener would want to experience first hand. So, “review” is perhaps inaccurate, especially considering all of these are widely regarded already as being masterpieces and the world doesn’t need one more arrogant blogger throwing around his spare change on the matter.
First up, Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel “THE FOREVER WAR”, listed as #21.
Hale and hearty 2015!
To try and keep things updating here and give the site a little more constant activity…
UNDER THE SKIN (WR: Michel Faber, 2000)
UNDER THE SKIN (DIR: Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Having just finished the book and then revisiting the film on the tails of it, my first review of 2015 is both a comparison of the two and actually among the last things I consumed during the latter part of last year.
Continue reading ““UNDER THE SKIN” – WR: Michel Faber (2000) / DIR: Jonathan Glazer (2013)”
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