7.75/10 (Good)
Won BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, 9 Caesar Award nominations (French Oscars) and two wins
Fresh off Continue reading
1980s
A Film Rumination: A Zed & Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway (1985)
8/10 (Very Good)
Peter Greenaway’s A Zed & Two Noughts is a fascinating take (both visually and plot-wise) on the archetypal theme of coping with death. Greenaway’s technical abilities shine through — Continue reading
Book Review: Merchanter’s Luck, C. J. Cherryh, (1982)
4/5 (Good)
C. J. Cherryh’s Merchanter’s Luck is a heady brew of redemption, paranoia, fear, endless suspicion, and more paranoia. However, this work has markedly less of the seemingly-endless (and often unjustified) political manipulation that bogs down Cherryh’s more famous novels Cyteen and Downbelow Continue reading
Book Review: The Pillars of Eternity, Barrington J. Bayley (1982)
4/5 (Good)
Barrington J. Bayley, an English sci-fi writer and a member of the Science Fiction New Wave, is considered a lost great — if not for his novels as novels, but for his well of bizarre/extraordinary/ Continue reading
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations 