The Rider is one of the shortest of Edgar Rice Burroughs works but it’s also one of the most entertaining. Written in 1915 and published as a serial for All-Story Weekly as H.R.H the Rider this story is a madcap adventure tale of mistaken and assumed identities with the fate of two countries hanging in…
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – Review
I’m a big fan of the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. It has great flight sequences, great characters, amazing music (I’ve played this song too many times to count), and well, it’s just an overall great movie. But do we really need a sequel? Is this just some sort of cash grab playing…
Maleficent (2014) – Review
Revamping classic fairy tales has quietly turned into Hollywood’s favourite safety net. We’ve seen it with Snow White and the Huntsman, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Oz the Great and Powerful, all of which look expensive and feel hollow. The assumption seems to be that visual splendour will do the heavy lifting, and with…