The month started with an ARC approval on the 1st, promising good things for February 😉 ARCs I'm going to call this a really nice haul, and manageable - how unlike me 😉 Juliet E McKenna's The Cleaving is a 'feminist retelling of the Arthurian legends', which promises to be high on historical detail giving characters … Continue reading Stacking the Shelves – February 2023
"On March 3, 1969, the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots" - and in 1986 we got a movie staring Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Edwards, about a cohort of these elite pilots. Now, 35 years on, we revisit Captain Pete Mitchell, aka Maverick, as he's … Continue reading Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
In a universe controlled by dominant noble houses, a political power struggle is about to erupt on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. The emperor has decreed that House Harkonnen will no longer control the planet and the universe's only source of Spice, the substance required for interstellar travel and thus the most valuable … Continue reading Dune (2021)
Welcome to Free City. It's here that Guy (Ryan Reynolds) works as a bank teller, dealing cheerfully with the daily hold-ups and naively blind to all the mayhem and destruction constantly going around. That is, until he meets the woman of his dreams, steals a pair of sunglasses, and suddenly sees... everything. Because Free City … Continue reading Free Guy (2021)
Looks like I managed one last cinema trip before the COVID-19 lock down o.O Oh well. Here's my review, in case you want to watch out for the movie on streaming...! The 1970 Miss World Competition, held in London, was controversial for several reasons. The main one examined in the movie is how the parade … Continue reading Misbehaviour (2020)
Being the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn 🙂 Following the events of Suicide Squad (2016), 'Mr J' (Joker, but not the Joaquin Phoenix one!) and Harley Quinn have split up. She's taking it well (!): time to adopt a new pet (hyena) and blow some stuff up. But, her party days of doing whatever she … Continue reading Birds of Prey (2020)
Once upon a time, there was magic in the world, a world populated by elves and pixies, mantacores and unicorns. But magic was hard, and folk found a way to make things easier - things like electricity, and the combustion engine. On Ian's (Tom Holland) 16th birthday, his mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) gives him and his … Continue reading Onward (2020)
Based on the classic novel (which I've not read - yet!) by Jack London, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a pampered pooch who is kidnapped and sold into a sled team in the frozen wilds of the Yukon in the late 1800s. The book gives us Buck's voice and viewpoint, … Continue reading The Call of the Wild (2020)
Following the death of his beloved wife, Dr John Dolittle has no heart left in him to continue treating the animals to which he can speak. Locked away in his home-come-nature reserve, surrounded by animal friends, what will it take to bring Dolittle back into the world? I had very little interest in seeing this … Continue reading Dolittle (2020)
Based on real events, Bombshell is the story of the women who brought down the powerful head of Fox News, exposing the toxic culture of sexual harassment and coercion behind the headlines. I was on the fence about seeing this one, mainly as I have very little knowledge of the events portrayed. I read that the real … Continue reading Bombshell (2019)
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