The Red Badge of Courage
Donald Pizer, Stephen Crane and Eric Carl Link
Book
The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured "Backgrounds and Sources" section that...
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Movie Watch
Once a powerful Hollywood director best known for "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein,"...
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)
Movie Watch
The T-virus unleashed by the evil Umbrella Corp. has spread to every corner of the globe, infesting...
Death in Holy Orders
Book
When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his...
David McK (3185 KP) rated Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1) in Books
Jan 28, 2019
By all accounts, the history of the books are actually pretty accurate: most of the people Flashman meets and interacts with were real personages of note, and the novels contain several footnotes providing yet more historical info on the events described. While it is taken to extremes, I think it's also fairly safe to say that the character of Flashman and the way he behaves probably isn't really that far away from the way some members of society did ...
(oh, and trivia note: MacDonald Fraser wrote the screenplays for 1973s "The Three Musketeers" and it's sequel "The Four Musketeers" as well as the James Bond film "Octopussy", amongst others)
Dragonfly in Amber
Book
This is the second novel in the bestselling outlander series. Now a major TV series. For twenty...
The Prince Who Would be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
Book
Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty...
Gareth von Kallenbach (965 KP) rated The Water Diviner (2015) in Movies
Aug 6, 2019
The story follows Joshua Conner (Crowe) and his attempts to re-locate his three sons Arthur, Henry and Edward, who went off to war together and yet were never heard from again. The three boys were inseparable as children (Jack Patterson, Ben Norris and Aidan Smith) and they stayed inseparable as adults (played by Ryan Corr, Ben O’Toole and James Fraser) as they went off to fight in World War I in the Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey.
Joshua loses contact with his sons during the war, and after the fighting has ended, he receives a journal that belonged to them. He reads the journal with his wife and they conclude that the boys must have perished in the fighting. Corners wife kills herself in her grief over losing them and Joshua swears he will bring the boys home, even if it is just their remains, that is his wife’s last wish.
Conner crosses the continent to search for them, meeting people along the way and finding clues. His efforts to locate the boys are rejected by military authorities but he stubbornly presses on.
Seeing this film in the movie theatre rather than on a home television is definitely worth it. The action and scenes of war flash backs are better suited to the big screen than a home tv for full effect and drawing you in to feel like you are ‘right there’.
The story was a bit predictable because after all, it’s the story of a father searching for his children, but it was emotional and held my attention.
Parts of it felt a bit slow, or maybe just confusing, because during the flash backs I wasn’t really sure whose flash backs they were or why they were significant, but over all the story flowed well and I enjoyed it.