Category Archives: Films & Books

The Green-Eyed Monster by author Mike Robinson – review by Tom Conrad.

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Question: if a writer continually taps his keyboard in California, could it really cause an avalanche in the sitting-room of a London reader? A seemingly odd question, perhaps, but not if you consider the focus of Mike Robinson’s second book, … Continue reading

Review of Skunk Ape Semester – début novel from author Mike Robinson.

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Skunk Ape Semester By Mike Robinson Published by Solstice Publishing 2012 Available: Amazon Kindle “Doogie Howser MD meets Bramstoker, and they take a road trip to find Bigfoot.” (The Indie Pedant 2012) : Skunk Ape Semester begins with the bizarre … Continue reading

Pixar’s Brave: Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Go See It And Love It!

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“If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?” 1. Merida. Merida, Merida, Merida. She is without a doubt the best Disney heroine and has replaced Princess Leia as my favourite princess of all time. Sorry Leia, I … Continue reading

Rumble Fish – a 1984 masterpiece by Francis Ford Coppola.

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“Rusty James can’t live up to his brother’s reputation. His brother can’t live it down.” That’s the tagline for this Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece and if you haven’t already seen Rumble Fish (1984) you should. Ignoring the novelty factor of … Continue reading

And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks: Part Two of Shepherd’s Beatnik Revival.

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When I recently recommended And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks to a good friend, I said something along the lines of: “I was really shocked that I didn’t know any of this before!” It’s semi-autobiographical, and though the manuscript for … Continue reading

Big Screen Adaptation of On The Road: Part One of Shepherd’s Beatnik Revival.

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Walter Salle’s portrayal of Beat classic On The Road has been causing a stir since it’s Cannes Festival debut in May. It was always going to be difficult, dealing with such an iconic novel. But I’m finding the hostility that … 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

Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange – Becky Shepherd grabs Burgess by the yarbles!

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  I sometimes have to go into HMV or Waterstones with the specific aim of having a look at the charts. I read the backs of CDs and paperbacks for something I might like or something I’ve heard people raving … Continue reading

‘Drive’ with Ryan Gosling, kinda like Grand Theft Auto made into film.

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Drive is kinda like a plot-line from the computer game Grand Theft Auto. For one, Ryan Gosling (Driver) struts about a lot, in a rather cool Scorpion embossed jacket, whilst seemingly waiting for the director (Nicolas Winding Refn) to press … Continue reading