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Raise the Titanic!

February 19, 2015May 27, 2015 / katyvans / Leave a comment

This release on DVD and Blu-ray is part of Network Distributing’s ‘The British Film’ collection. I recall watching this on TV as a child and being pretty impressed, how would I find it decades later and post-Cameron (James not David)?

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The Quick by Lauren Owen

April 6, 2014February 12, 2015 / katyvans / Leave a comment

Without giving too much away this modern gothic pays homage to the great canon that came before it. Set in an imagined underground culture of Victorian London there is a definite steampunk feel to this tale. Continue reading →

Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff

April 30, 2013February 4, 2015 / katyvans / Leave a comment

Apparently “Boy Nobody” has attracted strong interest from Sony Pictures who are looking at a producing a movie adaptation starring Jaden Smith. If they are looking for the latest young adult franchise to make a mint out of this could well be it. Continue reading →

Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

February 6, 2012February 6, 2015 / katyvans / Leave a comment

I saw the trailer for this recent Cronenberg offering and didn’t get around to seeing it in the cinema and at the time I didn’t realise that it was based on a Don DeLillo book of the same name. At just a couple of hundred pages long this is a racing read and appears to be dying for the film adaptation especially by someone who brought us A History of Violence and Eastern Promises . Continue reading →

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