Posts Tagged ‘review’

There’s been a lot of talk recently about Charlaine Harris’ novels, ever since Alan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under) turned her books into a TV series. TrueBlood has been described as ‘trailer trash vampires’, so I decided to take a look at what the fuss was all about. And I can tell you, Read more

I’ve been going through a Victoriana bingefest lately – Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen… So I thought I’d hark back to the world’s number one detective, the marvellously arrogant Sherlock Holmes. The famous detective was created by Sir Arthur Conan Read more

Quentin Tarantino has always been king of the cinema of excess. He’s not afraid to put something in a movie just because it’s cool, throwing out the rulebooks of history and logic at the same time. Such is the manner of Inglourious Basterds, his latest film deemed an ‘inglorious, Read more

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the Read more

Forget magical spells, secret passages and mysterious prophecies. Love stinks, even for wizards who have survived Voldemort. That’s the moral of the newly released Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. [caption id="attachment_257" align="alignleft" width="235" caption="Emotions run high in Read more

Is it embarrassing that my first ever post on this blog is about a Zac Efron movie? I’m going to say “yes”, but that’s not going to hold me back. While it was not my idea to go to this film, neither can I honestly claim that I was bribed, blackmailed or otherwise dragged Read more