Surrogates
Posted on October 21, 2009 in Movies
Surrogates offers a interesting concept that states that the majority of Earth’s population no longer spend their time living their life but rather in the inhabiting the surrogate bodies which are highly functional robots that are have attributes similar to humans in most aspects only more powerful. Bruce Willis takes on the role of an FBI agent, Tom Geer...
Read MoreThe Naming Of The Beasts
Posted on October 3, 2009 in Books
I picked up Mike Carey’s new book The Naming of The Beasts, the fifth book in the Felix Castor series, on the release day September 10th and was lucky enough to get it signed by Mike Carey himself. As I’ve noted in my posts on the previous books in the series (The Devil You Know, Vicious Circle, Dead Men’s Boots and Thicker Than Water), the...
Read MoreI Sell The Dead
Posted on September 12, 2009 in Movies
Two weekends ago London’s Empire Cinema at Leicester Square was the host of Freakfest 2009. Freakfest is a pretty large scale film festival centred on horror movies. The festival ran from Thursday till Sunday with people having the option of buying whole festival passes, day passes or single viewing tickets. I chose to buy a single ticket to go see I Sell...
Read MoreTime Traveler’s Wife
Posted on September 10, 2009 in Movies
Romantic science fiction is a pretty scarce genre. Sure there are multiple science fiction movies that contain a romantic sub plot or two but few specifically made with romance as its main focus and the science fiction as a small addition. Given this scarcity The Time Traveler’s Wife is rather unique. The movie tells the tale of one Henry DeTamble and...
Read MoreThe Soloist
Posted on September 8, 2009 in Movies
There are a few actors that you can always count on to choose roles in films that turn out to be excellent. One of these actors is Robert Downey Jr. Now Jamie Foxx is not one of these sure hit actors but he does have a pretty high hit rating. Consequently it is a good bet that a movie starring these two actors is going to be a good watch and that is surely what...
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