I forgot to link to this one at the time:
Where Eagles Dare, hosted by FerretBrain. Clint Eastwood kills a shitload of Nazis and Richard Burton grapples with spies on a cablecar.
Tag: review
Review – Stalag 17
Stalag 17 may not have much to say about the Nazis, but it has plenty of insight into human nature.
Reviewed at Ferretbrain.
Review – Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly Hits the Exclamation Mark. Bam!
I muse on why I love Matthew Reilly’s trashy thrillers, and why I really shouldn’t. Published at FerretBrain.
Review – Last Chance to See (TV Series)
A review of the BBC TV series on conservation. Featuring Mark Carwardine and Steven Fry, it retreads the territory of the Douglas Adams/Mark Carwardine trip of the 1980s.
Published by FerretBrain in November 2009.
Review – Once Upon a Time in the North
Two Guns, a Balloon and a Bear
Philip Pullman writes a mini-book about Lee Scoresby using Western tropes. I was always going to like this one.
Published at FerretBrain, October 2009.
Review – The Hunt for Gollum
This is a review hosted at FerretBrain enthusing about The Hunt for Gollum, a forty minute Lord of the Rings fan-film that’s available for free online. Set pre-LOTR, it’s an impressively well-made film that follows Aragorn’s attempt to bring Gollum back to Gandalf for questioning.
Review – the Neverwhere Graphic Novel
A review of the graphic novel Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, outlining a couple of problems I had with it. Published at FerretBrain .
Review – Pride of Baghdad
A FerretBrain review of the graphic novel Pride of Baghdad, gushing over the art and questioning the writing.
Review – Last Chance to See
Published at PopMatters, this is a review of Last Chance to See, the conservation book by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Review – Revengers Tragedy
Again, a FerretBrain article, this time a deliriously enthusiastic review of Alex Cox’s film adaptation Revengers Tragedy.
Unreal Sonia 