My rating: **** Northern Lights (His Dark Materials I) Tenth Anniversary 1995-2005 by Philip Pullman My review I enjoyed this book a great deal. Well-written and well-plotted with interesting characters. It also created a most convincing alternative world. Of particular interest is the idea that humans have souls which manifest themselves in physical animal form …
My rating ** This series is no better and no worse than a dozen other American television series that are being churned out at present and the critical comments I am making here apply to a number of other series as well. I first wrote this review after seeing about 3 episodes and I am …
My rating: *** imdb link See also my blog post on episode 2 Apparitions is a new supernatural thriller series currently airing on the BBC which gets off to a gripping start in the first episode. I saw this first episode courtesy of a good friend who is a fan of the actor who plays …
My rating: ** Imdb link The characters and story in this science fiction film directed by Michael Winterbottom are of no real interest and the film doesn’t offer much that is inspiring either on what appears to be its main themes of memory and identity and otherness. But what is interesting about this film are …
Spoiler alert My rating: *** Imdb link This film about a group of strangers, inexplicably trapped in an interlocking network of connected cubes and their efforts to escape, is gripping from beginning to finish. It also raises some interesting questions. What if we were trapped in a disciplinary mechanism which has gone way beyond any …
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