Much better than thought it would be. Given that it’s a Guy Ritchie film I expected Holmes to be a cockney gangsta, but he’s managed to stay relatively close to the character (though he’s quite different to the Jeremy Brett version I grew up watching on telly.) It’s a bit comic book style in places and complete bloody nonsense in others, but it’s good fun overall. Though if they make a sequel then that awful Irish jiggy music needs to go.
film review: Sherlock Holmes
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film review: Paranormal Activity
December 31, 2009 By
Not exactly the “scariest movie of all time” but it had a fair few creepy moments; more shiver down your spine than jump out of your seat, so if you’re into gory slasher films then this probably won’t be for you. Felt slightly Blair Witchy with the shaky camera work and with characters who were equally as annoying after a while, and unfortunately the ending was a little bit predictable. Probably good for a lazy Saturday night in with a DVD, but unfortunately not as good as it could have been.
book review: wiffle lever to full!* by Bob Fischer
April 21, 2009 By
Up until about 3 years ago when I finally got a proper job and had to start acting like a grown-up, I used to attend co
nventions on a regular basis; they’ve taken me everywhere from Glasgow to Los Angeles to Milton Keynes and I met a lot of nice people in the process (hey, Marina!). I actually bought this book for D for Christmas because, geek though he is, he’s yet to brave the convention circuit even for a day but loves hearing my stories about various weekends with time travellers and vampires. For me it was interesting to read Fischer’s accounts of the conventions he attended during one hectic summer (some of which I’d never even heard of) and the people he meets (think I recognised at least one of them) and also the stories from his childhood, which brought back a lot of shamefully geeky memories from my own mis-spent youth.
This is a fun book, written in a friendly and engaging style, and is well worth a look if you’ve ever felt partial to dressing up as a Time Lord and spending a weekend in an alcoholic haze. Although I’d advise skipping the extracts from his sci-fi “novel” at the start of each chapter; that’s just silly.
*Or, to give the book its full title; Wiffle lever to full! Daleks, Death Stars and Dreamy-eyed Nostalgia at the Strangest Sci-fi Conventions
