A story about a little boy and a number of supernatural women who make his life very interesting for a few days when he is seven years old. The nature of these women, and of reality itself, is never fully explained. When our young hero asks about such things he is told that he doesn’t need to know about them and he wouldn’t understand anyway. The Ocean at The End of the Lane brings to mind The Night Circus and Neverwhere in that hidden just below the world we know and think we understand is a vaster and much more…
Tag: personal level
The Americans on FX
In 1981 life is not as easy as it once was for a couple of KGB spies. Reagan is rattling sabers and threatening the Soviet Union as it hasn’t been threaten since the Cuban Missile Crisis. On a more personal level, other KGB agents are defecting to America and making a lot of money for doing so. One such traitor to the Mother Country causes problems for our KGB heroes. Also in 1981 a movie called Das Boot came out. It was the story of the heroic crew of a Nazi U-boat doing it’s best to sink Allied ships…
Attack The Block
The story of a council block inhabited by an odd mixture of London poor, that happens to become the center of an alien invasion. From the producers of Shane of The Dead, Attack The Block is a pretty straight forward take on a monster movie. Unlike CGI fests such as Super 8 and Cloverfield, Attack The Block gives us a story on a human level-and leaves the over the top special effects in the box. Our heroes don’t start off very heroic, they are busy mugging a woman when something falls from the sky and flattens a car. They find…