In this increasingly screen focused world, a lot of us have ended up ditching books for TV shows, for movies, for video games, for endless browsing through internet forums that feels fun at the time but then makes you feel slightly hollow later on that evening when you realise you’ve lost hours to it. Here…
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The Hunger Games Catching Fire: The Movie vs. Book
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•As the excitement over Catching Fire builds, fans everywhere are wondering: Will the movie be true to the book? As reported in Entertainment Weekly, director Frances Lawrence assures us that it will: “The movie is very, very true to the book,” he says. However, it’s practically impossible for a movie to turn out exactly like…
Book Review: Contrition by Robert E. Hirsch
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•Fiction based on religion can be quite thought provoking at times. It does not matter what religion you are, or even if you don’t have one, it’s still interesting. The characters in the tale take actions based on their beliefs and what the religion dictates, or of course they fight against it. It’s all about…
Book Review: Tales From Development Hell by David Hughes
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•Book Review: The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia by Glenn Mitchell
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•Book Review: Sherlock Holmes on Screen
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•31 Days of Horror – Book Review: Hellbent by Cherie Priest
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•When we left Cherie Priest’s Bloodshot there were a few questions to be answered. Of course mentioning them would be potential spoilers but it’s fair to say that I was hopeful that Hellbent the next book in the Raylene Pendle story would answer a few. I’d say it answered at least one but offered even…
UNDEAD: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD & RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
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•Book Review: Bloodshot by Cherie Priest
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•Vampires; since when did they become so passé in the horror world? It’s a shame really and it’s easy to blame Twilight for the watering down of one of the darker creatures of the imaginary worlds of fiction. Sometimes though we can escape the almost incessant deluge of emo vampires and we find one that…