Two top CIA operatives, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, end up competing for the same woman, Reese Witherspoon’s product-testing Lauren. Cue Lauren – who is working under the assumption this is a rom-com – tossing her luxuriant blonde locks and fretting over which man to pick, with advice from her brash friend – who wandered
Caught in Crystal is the fourth book in Patricia Wrede’s Lyra series, the first chronologically and was originally published in 1987. The rights to the series have been purchased by Open Road books and re-released in ebook form. And about time too. With over a decade under its belt, Caught in Crystal could be forgiven
As a child Abigail Sharp was encouraged to be independent and free-thinking by her governess mother. It was anything but a conventional childhood and, as a result, Abbie is anything but a conventional Victorian young lady. Unfortunately, since Lady Charlotte Westfield took in her newly orphaned grand-daughter, that is exactly what Abbie has to pretend
Last week, expectations for National Anthem were high and the delivered quality disappointing. This week I wasn’t expecting as much and I was pleasantly surprised – until it all went a bit wrong. 15 Million Merits is a world ruled by the entertainment. You don’t pay to watch TV, you pay for the right to
A flight of fancy on a paper airplane, but they haven’t got all the rough edges off yet. Nicholas Lloyd-Webber and James D Reid’s musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince arrives at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast with a paper airplane, a light show and a score full of toe-tapping musical numbers. ‘Why are
Once Upon a Time has been my non-guilty pleasure of the winter TV schedule. (The guilty pleasures are Glee, which sometimes makes me cringe, and Terra Nova, where an awesome concept has to deal with the Shannons.) My only demur about loving OUT is that I am sure the laws of narrative consequence will mean
There were four of us in a room, three of us had no idea what was going on; one of us pretended her fingers were Jack’s penis and postulated that the Blessing was a giant testicle severed from Jack and grown to disgusting size. Let’s be honest, that is probably more of an idea than
It is a week of revelations. Some are interesting, some are not so much. The Skitter’s bipedal, attenuated, sting-ray faced overlords? Interesting. Weaver’s family? Not so much. Look, people infer things about other people all the time. It is how society works, we infer moods and histories and attitudes from what our peers say, don’t
In the latest installment in the Final Destination franchise – Final Destination 5 – a group of attractive young folk cheat death, only to discover he takes that worse than a mob-run casino in Vegas. If that sounds familiar, it is because it was the plot of Final Destination 1 through 4, and probably 6
‘It’s like the Wild West out there. If we get into trouble, we’re going to need something to trade!’ Civilian Jeff sweats at Dr Glass, as he steals a pillow case from her. Civilian Jeff clearly has a rather optimistic idea of how much bargaining a weedy man with spectacles and one handgun can do
Falling Skies continues to be one of the better SF programmes of recent years – better than The Event, not as good as Battlestar Galactica and about the same as Caprica (my opinions only). The Mason family are finally putting their delayed-by-Skitter plan to rescue their middle brother into action. Except it turns out that
I am not loving Torchwood. A lot of people are, but it must makes me feel a bit nostalgically sad. Like when you run into someone you used to love and realise that not only do you not love them anymore, but that you wish they would hurry up so you can get on with
