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Return of the Mack Well, long time no message. Glad to see some of the members are still taking an interest in the comics section. And big ups to Funes for mentioning Elektra Assassin (forget about Jessica Wossname in the new film - a bland travesty of a psychologically fascinating...

Resurrection man Hey Ell - and everyone, really My home PC became an abode of dragons some time ago. It took a while, but a fearless engineer eventually drove out the demons and returned the hard drive to me unburned. It's okay now, de-gremlin'd and curiously a bit friskier than before. A...

Agreed. I would reckon Shawshank falls into the exclusive group of frankly flawless modern films (I mean those made in the last twenty-five years or so). Much as I hate to admit it, having a passionate dislike for Tom Hanks in anything made after 1989, The Green Mile was also excellent...

Hugely disappointing My big problem with Minority Report was precisely that it was a really dark and thematically interesting sci-fi film for the first hour - worthy of the "best sci-fi flick since Blade Runner" praise it got - and then got confused about where it wanted to go and what it...

Confirmation Yes, Dave, that's definitely The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch. As the title suggests, it's a linear storyline with very little of Lynch's trademark "oddity" (not counting the basic premise of the story, that is!). Tobytook

TT update If anyone interested in unaware, the second film is due for release in the December 2002 period. I've just recieved a comics-related publication with some stills that look pretty good. Everyone's favourite psycho, Brad Dourif (voice of Chucky in, at least, the first Child's Play...

Classic oddments Welcome, indeed. I look forward to chatting. Tobytook

Eowyn the brazen hussy If the film follows the book basically enough (as I'm sure it will), she will be following him around Middle-Earth with her tongue hanging out. He will be having none of it, prefering the pointy-eared version. She will be gutted, but the brother of a certain...

Oh, don't. You'll only encourage him ;) Welcome to here. Tobytook

Hey Ross. Welcome. Tobytook

Proulx-dent I like Neil Gaiman - being an old Sandman fan - and Good Omens is one of the best, funniest populist books I've ever read. But I must put my hand up for The Shipping News. Been meaning to buy a copy of that for years. Tobytook

A Murder of Crows Hey, Darren. Haven't got the track listings to hand, but I was most impressed with songs like Anna Begins, Rain King and A Murder of Crows from that LP. The second one has got some blisteringly rocky tracks, which work better than the ballads, like Angels of the Silences...

Got to agree with you, Mike, that's a top character. But don't you feel he's best used as a bit-player (with the exception of Mort, perhaps)? I tend to recall the Death-o-centric books in the series as less rewarding, generally. Tobytook

Beyond history With the demise of bebe and spaz, this thread (this whole area of the Forum, actually) has been a bit of a No-Fly Zone. Still, this was a decent General thread, and there's no reason to let it slide just because of past unpleasantnesses. I've been listening to an album called...

Colour me puzzled, lies. Did you like or not? Better yet, was it good, regardless of whether you liked it? (Weird thing to write, maybe, but - for example - I thought the film Three Kings (George Clooney flick, satire on The Gulf War) was very, very good - but it wasn't my cup of tea.)...

This is the Nashville writer’s fourth novel, and her first to win major awards (the PEN/Faulkner and the Orange Prize for fiction). The president of an impoverished South American country, beset by internal crises and the constant threat of coup d'etat, hosts a dinner party for various...

King of the Forum Hmm, interesting. I think, though, that we're in danger of repeating a dialogue that's already happened elsewhere (in the Authors section). Nothing wrong with taking it a bit further, of course, but of you want to carry on with this then I'd suggest we reanimate that...

That'll be Eowyn, then. Actress is Miranda Otto (I think). Don't know how much you know about the story, but the name itself should answer any "love interest" questions, if you've read the book. If not, I'm sure some kind user will fill you in - it might even be me. Tobytook

Devil's Advocate Having not read the Dark Tower books, I'm not in a position to criticise or deride the choice of many to put this Roland character up alongside Jay Gatsby or some of the other "classics" mentioned (where's Hamlet, by the way?). However, only Dawn has actually given evidence...

Really? That's... unusual. I don't think I've ever met someone who had something bad to say about that book (except for the bit with The Turtle, which was pushing it a bit) - even people who don't generally shop at the King mall. Have you read (and liked) anything else by him? This rings a...