Category: Review

Life has always been a struggle for Piscine Molitor Patel, a story of challenges before eventual triumph. Yann Martel’s second novel, it struggled even to find a publisher,

The great British holiday. The staycation. Caravanning. A series of phrases as misleadingly optimistic as the hopes of the British film industry, yet in Sightseers all these things

Can it really be fifteen years since Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers was released? Taking the structure and events of Robert A Heinlein‘s source novel, often dismissed as fascist

It’s hard to guarantee a hit these days, so when a studio gets one, it wants to make sure that it ekes out every last nickel and dime

The last year has seen a number of comics drawing on hard science or sci-fi themes hit the shelves.  Amongst these have been tales drenched in the bizarre,

The success of the Silent Hill videogames, with nine releases since 1999 plus arcade and mobile versions, virtually guaranteed that it would be adapted for cinema. Set in

The city of Glasgow reaches far back, it’s origin a rural settlement in medieval times, that has become a major city of Scotland and one of the largest

Like the characters in his novels, Joe Abercrombie is not a man to be taken lightly. Launching his writing career in 2006 with The Blade Itself, his First

Justin Cronin is an acclaimed writer, and deservedly so: the Harvard graduate is a professor of English at Rice University and an award winning novelist, but recognition of

“It was a child’s toy, a very small Matchbox vehicle. Rolled seven feet across a linoleum surface. The duration of the event was seven hours.” “Seven hours for what?” “For