December 2009
8 posts
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Sherlock Holmes Review
Going in to Sherlock Holmes I wasn’t too sure it’d be any good, but I hoped for the best. I’m not exactly a fan of Guy Richie’s films and I wasn’t sure his usual style would work for what is pretty much a mystery film. With that all said I was pretty surprised at how much I enjoyed it, it is more or less a mystery film with a good amount of humour, punctuated by fun...
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St. Trinian's 2 Review
I’m not sure I really have that much to say about St. Trinian’s 2, It’s a fairly standard Family Comedy film, they’ve tamed the innuendo since the first, but there’s still some of it there. It’s not a great story, not that you’d really expect it to be, but it is a fairly fun family film.
The story starts with a little bit of swashbuckling, and the story...
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Avatar Review
James Cameron’s latest sci-fi action film, Avatar is basically what you expect from the outset. An action filled spectacle with big expensive special effects. The story is of Jake Sully, a marine who’s been paralysed from the waist down. He’s signed up for a mission on Pandora to take the place of his dead twin brother, who was a scientist whose DNA has been used to create an...
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon Review
I’m going to start by saying I have read the entire “Twilight Saga” and find them to be a bit of a guilty pleasure read. I recognise they’re not well written, but they did entertain me for a week and were somewhat compulsive reading despite the fact the characters annoyed me, and I disliked almost all of them. So I guess there may be points in this review where I comment on things that...
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First Lord's Fury (Codex Alera) review
I’ve first became a fan of Jim Butcher’s work thanks to The Dresden Files TV series. While the show was a poor but improving urban fantasy series it introduced me to the fantastic novel series. I tore through the first 7 books of the series in a few weeks and it has become perhaps my favourite series of books. After I finished reading them and discovering the next story was 6 months...
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Law Abiding Citizen Review
The story begins with a loving family. Little girl making trinkets for her parent. Daddy tinkering away. Mum doing something or other. Then comes a knock at the door, and daddy goes to answer it expecting a take away delivery. Bam baseball bat to the face and 2 bad guys come in to steal the family silver, stab dad, rape and murder mum, and kill little girl while dad blacks out.
Then comes the...
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The Descent Part 2 Review
The Descent, for anyone who hasn’t seen it (and if you haven’t and you’re a horror fan you should), was a 2005 British horror movie about a group of women who go cave diving in an unexplored cave system and run in to trouble in the form of underground-dwelling things. I won’t say much more about it in case people want to look it up.
Anyway, The Descent Part 2 picks up...
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Paranormal Activity Review
If you haven’t seen any of the viral marketing Paranormal Activity is the story of Katie, a student who’s been subjected to the terrors of a ghost following her since she was 8 years old. He’d do terrible things like stand at the end of her bed, or breathe on her face.
But this ghost wasn’t polite enough to stay in her home when it burned down and followed her 13 year old...