Shallow Reviews from the Film Festival

Space Battleship Yamato

it's the year 2199, and the Earth is under attack! and the space battleship, Yamato, is our only hope! so it's sent on an epic voyage across the universe to save the Earth. and there are epic space battles. it's epic! and filled with drama and romance and thrilling heroics. also, the hero has awesome hair. and there's a ship's cat! and the Yamato looks kind of like a shark. in space! check it out:

Drive

hey girl, this is that movie where Ryan Gosling is a total badass. and a very good neighbour. he's a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. and he helps out the cute girl next door when her husband's in a fix. and when things go wrong he goes all angel of vengeance on the bad guys. it's directed by the guy who did Bronson. so there's some ultraviolence. you should know that going in, so you can cover your eyes when that happens. it's a good movie though.

Random August Post

The film festival is on (29 July - 14 August) and I've booked tickets for "Space Battleship Yamato" (2 August) and "Drive" (14 August) so there may well be a Film Review in this blog's future.

I've also got a stack of books from the library - have finished "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" by Carrie Ryan, and am currently a third of the way into "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman. If I ever finish the stack (which includes Seanan McGuire, Gail Carriger and another Carrie Ryan) then there just might be a Book Review also.

And there is a review pending for un petit film I watched the other day (rented from Aro Video) called "12 and Holding" but I've asked some friends of mine to watch it as well, and give me their take on it first. (For those of you who were reading my Shallow Reviews over on Facebook ... yeah, I'm sorry about that. I just could not find a way to write a shallow review on "Bronson" and "Stuart - a life backwards" ... they're kind of heavy films.)

Oh, and this here's a picture for Liz and Miriam:

You're welcome.