While it may have been a while until I read Dracula, I was by no means unfamiliar with the story. Van Helsing is one of my favourite films. Another favourite is Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring the uniquely talented Gary Oldman. It came out in 1992 so it’s only just older than me. It stars Keanu…
So it was the weekend and I had a list as long as my arm of things to do. I’d been doing really well all week, did a ton of work with more work to be doing. All week my friends had been banging on about this series on Netflix that I should watch. I…
There are in fact two film adaptations of this book, an American one and a Swedish one. This post will be reviewing the 2008 Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson and comparing it to the book by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film stars Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar and Lina Leandersson as Eli. Let The Right One In obviously follows…
Hey chaps! After finishing the book, I watched the 2002 extended version of Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers. First off, I liked that they didn’t separate the two groups story lines, like they are in the book. It made much more sense for them to be set out chronologically and I would have preferred for the…
Hey chaps! After finishing the book, I watched the extended version of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring (2001). So here’s my thoughts on how the story fared on its transition to the big screen. As book adaptations go, its one of the best I’ve seen. However, I found the the film a lot more…
A Thousand Lives 