New Ways to Read Books

By Dwardus | Published October 8, 2008

There are two new ways to read books. First of all, there’s Google Book Search, which allows readers to find and read public domain books on-screen. As an author, you may also provide digital .pdf versions of your own works or sample/preview chapters and tables of contents. Books that are out of copyright like Peter Pan can be found in the book search’s ever growing library.

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Tropic Thunder

By Dwardus | Published October 4, 2008

Aren’t Orange Wednesday’s good? Especially when you go and see something funny and engaging which takes you out of yourself for a couple of hours.

Tropic Thunder has a brilliant ensemble cast and features one of my favourite actors, Robert Downey Jr. It pays homage to films like Platoon and Apocalypse Now, and it is laugh-out-loud funny.

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Love in the Time of Zombies and other stories

By Dwardus | Published October 3, 2008

I mention in the title up at the top of the page that this blog features writing. Up until this point that has been a massive fib – all I’ve really done is talk about cinema and music. I am doing a fair bit of writing when I’m not 9-5ing though, honest!

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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

By Dwardus | Published September 12, 2008

I’ve lost count of the number of comic book adaptions that have popped up in the last few years, but barring The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2 is the one I’ve been waiting for.

I loved Ron Perlman as Hellboy and del Toro’s directing, not to mention his take on Mignola’s world of nutcase Nazis and and Lovecraftian monsters. From the trailer it was quite plain to see that Hellboy 2 would be bigger – at least visually and character-wise, but I was a little worried that the CGI-factor would swallow up everything else.

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