Saturday, July 21, 2018
First Lines: P.D. James - A Taste For Death
The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton, a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew's in Paddington, London, and Darren Wilkes, aged 10, of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Heart-wrenching and tragic tale is successful in envisaging the mad hypocrisy of the Nazi ideology, but only skims the horrors of the Holocaust.
Maltin***: "Unique Holocaust fable...Quietly powerful drama personalizes the qualms and contradictions facing German families during the Nazi era."
Avril et le monde truqué (2015)
France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously, Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Delightfully quirky animated movie set in a steampunk alternate reality; lovable characters (especially Avril and her cat) and highly imaginative sets make this a joy to watch.
Friday, July 20, 2018
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Introducing a phenomenon in which anything is possible the creators of this movie obviously thought it was feasible to do likewise with the plot, so the result is messy, without coherence and full of weird things going on devoid of any logic or explanation.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
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