Agatha returns to Los Angeles from the Florida clinic where she’s been incarcerated following an incident of arson. She takes a job as Personal Assistant to Julianne Moore’s Havana, a self-absorbed narcissistic Hollywood nutcase, whose apparently-abusive mother died in a suspicious fire. Agatha’s brother is himself a child star with issues, her estranged dad is…
Read moreLast Days on Mars
Set in the closing hours of a 6 month-long manned international expedition to the Red Planet’s dusty surface, a Russian scientist discovers an odd bacteria that turns the astronauts to zombies, one by one. Yes, Last Days on Mars is about zombies in space. Zombies. In. Space. This is of course, all completely rocking! Now…
Read moreThe Ghost Writer
Last night at the Sarajevo Film Festival, the Fairies and I took ourselves off to Novi Grad to see The Ghost Writer, a middling-to-good film based on a captivating premise: what the hell was Tony Blair thinking when he took the UK to war? Based on Thomas Harris’s novel, here it’s a fictional former Prime…
Read moreKrakatoa, The Last Days
OK, so you’ve maybe realised by now that I love a movie where they blow stuff up. But just to prove I’m not entirely low-brow, here’s a post on a 2 part mini series on the History Channel. Yes, stuff blows up, but absolutely no Aliens are involved…… Krakatoa, the Last Days is a 2006…
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