Categories: Reviews, Films, Other, Websites
The absolutely most useful thing I have bought this year
As we approach Christmas and the new year, I've been reminiscing on the things I've been up to over the year, and naturally that includes some of the purchases I've made. Without a doubt the prize for the best purchase I've made this year goes to: Lifeve… more »
A Scanner Darkly
Year: 2006
Genre: Sci-Fi/ Animation/ Thriller
This film basically covers the day-to-day activities of an LA narcotics cop who takes the very drug he's trying to stop others from getting hooked on, and his loss of identity he experiences as a result.… more »
Accepted
Year: 2006
Genre: Teen flick/ Pop
Accepted is the story of a student who, after being rejected from every college he applied to, creates a fake college to fool his parents, but things go a little wrong when over a hundred teens turn up, having been '… more »
The DaVinci Code
Year: 2006
Genre: Adventure/ Religion/ Mystery
The DaVinci code is based on the book of the same name by Dan Brown, and follows the adventures of American symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu, as they struggle to understand… more »
Polar Express
Year: 2004
Genre: Childrens'/ Animation/ Adventure/ Fantasy
This film is about a little boy who doubts whether Santa actually exists, and on Christmas Eve is taken by steam train on a magical adventure to see Santa at the north pole.
I quite like… more »
El Laberinto del Fauno [Pan's Labyrinth]
Year: 2006
Genre: Fantasy/ Drama/ Horror
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
This is the story of a young girl, Ophelia, and her pregnant mother who travel to live in a rural area of Spain with the mother's new Nazi husband. Ophelia's new Fathe… more »
Dragonheart
Year: 1996
Genre: Action/ Fantasy/ Adventure
Dragonheart is the story of the last Dragon, Draco, and Bowen, a knight disillusioned when the boy he taught to be benevolent becomes king and a tyrant. Tired of chasing each other and always ending up at… more »
Casino Royal
Year: 2006
Genre: Espionage/ Action
Casino Royal is the latest James Bond film, staring Daniel Craig as the 6th Bond. This is Bond's first mission as a double-oh agent, and he has to stop a banker from winning a high stakes poker game and using the w… more »
Stranger Than Fiction
Year: 2006
Genre: Comedy/ romance
This is the story of Harold Crick, an IRS agent who starts hearing a voice narrating exactly what he's doing and thinking, and seems to be dictating his life to some extent. This is also the story of Kay Eiffel, a ra… more »
The Fountain
Year: 2006
Genre: Sci-Fi/ Romance/ Other
The Fountain is three stories wound together all focusing, somehow, on the existence of a tree that can cure all ills and grant immortality.
The main story follows Tomas Creo, a cancer research scientist wh… more »
Flushed Away
Year: 2006
Genre: Animated/ Children
Flushed Away is the latest film from Aardman Animations, and is their first full CGI film. It follows the adventures of Roddy the Mouse as he gets flushed down the loo by an unwelcome house guest, and his escapade… more »
Happy Feet
Year: 2006
Genre: Animated/ Children
Happy feet is about a tap-dancing penguin who grows up as a pariah because all the other penguins sing. His differences lead him to meet other types of penguin and finally ends up at the penguin exhibition at Seaw… more »
John Doe
Type: TV series
Date: 2003
Genre:Science Fiction
This is a review of a series that had been premiering on the Sci-Fi channel for a while now. What series is this? Why, John Doe of course.
Basically, its about this guy who wakes up on Horseshoe Is… more »
Zardoz
Date:1974
Genre:Science Fiction/ Head-fuck
This film has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever watched. The plot [and I use that term in the loosest way possible] centrers around a barbarian exterminator named Zed [Sean Connery] who manages to get… more »
Twentysomething
Type: CD
Artist: Jamie Cullum
Date: 2003
Genre:Jazz
Track list:
* What a difference a day makes
* These are the days
* Singin' in the rain
* Twentysomething
* But for now
* Old devil moon
* I could have danced all night
* Blame it on my youth… more »
Starsky and Hutch
Date:2004
Genre:Action/ crime
Starsky and Hutch has everything you could want in a movie; fast cars, hot guys, hot girls, car chases, fight scenes, explosions, bad humor, embroidery... Wait! What? If you go see it you'll understand.
The story is c… more »
Sakura Wars - OVA Collection
Type: OVA Anime
Date: 1997/ 1999
Genre: American-esqu teeny-bop
Sakura Wars OVA collection consists of three DVDs and is based around the exploits of The Imperial Flower Combat Troupe, a semi-secret body of female fighters who battle demons with the… more »
Reservoir Dogs
Date:1992
Genre:Crime/ Action
The film is about a group of strangers, poised to pull off the perfect crime, but one of them is a undercover cop who sells them out, and they end up walking into an ambush. Throughout the course of the film we see each… more »
Legend of the Dragon Kings
Type: Anime
Genre:Fantasy
This is a tale of four brothers and how they learn, over the course of 12 episodes, how they are the descendants of four legendary dragon kings, and about their fantastic powers. Unfortunately, to say more of the story line… more »
Jackie Brown
Date:1997
Genre:Crime/ Action
An airline stewardess named Jackie Brown gets imprisoned for running cannabis from Mexico to LA for a friend of hers named Ordell Robbie, who then pays for her bail. He then asks her to run some money for him, but she br… more »
The Forgotten
Date: 2004
Genre: Psychological Thriller/ Conspiracy theory
The Forgotten is about a woman who's son went missing after he was involved in a plane crash. As the movie progresses, people keep trying to convince her that he never existed, even though s… more »
The Earthsea Quartet
Type: Book
Author: Ursula Le Guin
Date: 1993
Genre:High Fantasy
I don't own all the books, just the first four; A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The farthest Shore, Tehanu. The blurb on the back says:
As a young dragon lord Ged, who… more »
du.org //patty
Link
Date: 2005 +
Genre: Personal
This site has no splash page, a nice simple layout [though not very unique] and some nice colours. The only problem I have with the colours, though, is that the links are very pale and hard to see against the white… more »
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension
Date: 1984
Genre:Science Fiction
The story is based around Buckaroo Banzai [neurosurgeon, guitarist and all round god] who, in an attempt to travel to a different dimension, brings the earth into the cross fire of another race. Can Buckaroo Banzai an… more »
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