Category Archives: Charlotte Barnes

You truly can get everything on the internet – left click for a Kidney?

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They say that you can buy absolutely everything on the internet these days, and it would seem that they are entirely right. There really isn’t much that you can’t get hold of without the help of a good browser, including, … Continue reading

The Amazing Spider-Man 2012 is quite refreshingly… amazing.

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If there’s one thing that Hollywood is relatively good at doing, it’s taking extremely famous comic book superheroes and putting them into a film, which is exactly what Sam Raimi did in 2002 with Spider-man. The two-hour flick was relatively … Continue reading

Fifty Shades of Grey – erotic literature or annoying mummy porn?

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Seldom does it happen that a book rises up from absolutely nowhere and takes the whole world by storm. The names you will immediately think of are things like the Harry Potter series, Game of Thrones and, unfortunately, Twilight. Thanks … Continue reading

Another slice of American Pie anyone? Review by Charlotte Barnes.

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The infamous American Pie films might not have offered the best advice on how to get girls (although the guys all seemed to manage it in the end) but they certainly managed to provide many people with a few laughs, … Continue reading

The Devil Inside – film review by Charlotte Barnes.

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As a self-confessed horror-film fan, I was a little apprehensive to be buying tickets for yet another Hollywood-made exorcism-themed film. The deciding factor was the glowing review delivered from the girl behind the counter of Vue, who assured me The … Continue reading

Book vs Film: The Woman in Black – review by Charlotte Barnes.

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In 1983 Susan Hill shook novel-readers to the core with her shilling book, The Woman in Black. The novel tells the story of – you guessed it – a woman in black, whose presence leads to the death of children. … Continue reading

The girl with the dragon tattoo – book, film and another film for Americans who don’t like subtitles.

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In 2005 Stieg Larsson took the world by storm with his novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (originally entitled Men Who Hate Women). This is the first book in what has become known as the “Millennium Series” and after … Continue reading

The Thing (2011) prequel to John Carpenters, erm, The Thing (1982) – review by Charlotte Barnes.

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To iron out the first misconception about this film:  it isn’t actually a remake at all. The Thing (2011) is a prequel to John Carpenter’s film, The Thing (1982) and while there are certain elements that echo incidents in the … Continue reading

John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost gets the Hollywood c-lister treatment.

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Since the dawn of Hollywood, writers and directors have held some sordid fascination with the idea of taking a classic piece of literature and twisting it into an on-screen epic. Jane Eyre alone has had this done over twenty times … Continue reading

Contagion… nothing spreads like fear – film review by Charlotte Barnes.

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So the cinema is housing another unstoppable, world-destroying virus and this time it’s in the form of… Contagion. The latest film to explore the likeliness of a killer disease springing up from nowhere and attacking every living organism. The 106 … Continue reading