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Death Race (2008)
google_ad_section_start The Death Race is an action movie based on 1975 film Death Race 2000 and written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Both movies were produced by Roger Corman. The original movie was starring David Carradine and Sylvester...
Reviewed by Maxim via 
on 30 Aug 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Dissolution by C J Sansom
Set in England at the time of King Henry VIII and his dissolution of the monasteries, this murder mystery starts with the sending of lawyer and reformist Matthew Shardlake to a Benedictine monastery where the previous commissioner had been found...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via 
on 25 Aug 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Pineapple Express (2008)
google_ad_section_start After Seth Rogen and his buddy Evan Goldberg wrote the script for Superbad when they were 15 years old, they also were itching to write a script for an action movie, but with a twist. Nobody has done this before: if an action...
Reviewed by Maxim via on 13 Aug 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
The Dark Knight (2008)
google_ad_section_start By now everyone knows that The Dark Knight (a.k.a. Batman Begins 2 ) has been a boxoffice record-setting sequel to the 2005′ Batman Begins . This menacing graphic novel made for screen was directed by Christopher...
Reviewed by Maxim via on 22 Jul 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
So Wimbledon was in progress, I was in my local bookshop and this novel caught my eye. Its the story of Willy, a low ranking tennis professional on the way up when we first encounter her. She's been playing tennis since aged four and is now...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via 
on 18 Jul 2008.
2 of 2 people found this useful.
Dead Man (1995)
google_ad_section_start This dramatic western starring Johnny Depp was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The plot : After death of his parents, William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, takes a job offer and moves to the Town of Machine at...
Reviewed by Maxim via on 09 Jul 2008.
2 of 2 people found this useful.
Wanted (2008)
google_ad_section_start Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is already known to American audience by his films Night Watch: Nochnoy Dozor and Day Watch: Dnevnoy Dozor and the next part, Twilight Watch: Sumerechniy Dozor based on Sergei...
Reviewed by Maxim via on 08 Jul 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Easy to read, page turner of a novel whose main character is Peter, a bullied teenager, who heads into high school one morning armed and kills ten people. I found many of the characters to be cliched and a bit one dimensional. But despite that the...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 03 Jul 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons
Having read and enjoyed “Man and Boy” and “One for my baby”, I was looking forward to reading this latest novel from Tony Parsons. Alas it was a major disappointment. Having just finished it, I am left with a sense of...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 30 Mar 2008.
2 of 2 people found this useful.
In the Woods by Tana French
My mother in law lent me this book a few weeks ago and it was a good read up to a point. My main gripe is its very disappointing ending which then tarred the whole novel as I wondered “why the hell did I bother reading that?” Its set in...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 06 Mar 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
