Movies
Woman with the Dragon Tattoo
*****
A writer under investigation for plagerism finds himself suddenly asked by a fan to help solve a family mystery. The family has a spotty past and a secrets of a said murder the haunts each member to their own deaths.
When I picked up the book, it was in Texas, but when seeing the actual movie, I was impressed. The action was good and the characters are true to the book. The movie draws out a lot of the book and also a lot of different things that did not happen in the book.
Books
The Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larrason
****
Lisabeth is back, but this time she's in trouble, her good friend, Mikael Blomkvist has his magazine back. He is on the verge of uncovering a massive human trafficking problem and it goes to the highest officials.
This book is rather dragged out a bit from the last, but it still holds the edge of a good mystery. The main character, Lizabeth is blamed for something she didn't do and you have to uncover who is doing it.
Manga
(None for this month sorry)
Anime
(None for this month sorry)
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Movies on the Block
Planning to make a list of movies that are tops on my view of what is going to be out in the end of 2010 and also what should be coming in 2011.
2010
November
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1
December
Tron: Legacy
2011
January
Green Hornet
Upcoming to be announced
Thor
Avengers
There is more accurate of a list somewhere of what is going on. I am making a list of movies I'm planning on seeing with my fiance and also going to be reviewing these up coming favorites for all to see. Believe it or not!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
November Books
Manga
Sunshine Sketch
Ume Aoki
****
Yuno is a new student at one of the most prestegious art schools in Japan. In fact she feels almost honored to make it. She goes to live at the dorms or rather the school run apartments and finds out that there are stranger things other than her classes, its her classmates. She learns that they are creative, silly and friendly.
I liked this series simply for the reminder that friends can show in the strangest of places including dorms and also in school.
Anime
Ghost Stories
***
Satsuki and her brother move to her mother's home town and finds out more than it appears. Her father appears to be attentive and works hard, not to mention he doesn't appear to know much about the mother either. They move in also next door to Hajime whose best friend is interested in ghosts. Soon they find out that ghosts follow Satsuki's family all over the place. So with their plotting demon possessed cat they are out to trap demons and get rid of the evils of the world.
This series is CRACK! Okay, it isn't just the fact that if you do watch it, please watch it in Japanese with English subs, if you watch it in English, you are in for a comedy of a life time. I do enjoy it, but again, its the fact I do like some comedy anime with a lot more to it.
Shiki
*****
Sotobamura is a small village out in the middle of no where and it is becoming a ghost town, in fact it is hidden and almost completely isolated. Not to mention people are dying of a strange plague that came in the middle of the day when three members of a family are found completely dead and drained of blood. Then Megumi a hyper girl who loves gazing at a European style house on the hill goes missing.
I enjoyed this series it is rather scary and dark, I feel it should deserving of vampire movies and also has a classic feel to it.
Books
Monster High
Lisa Harrison
*****
Frankie Stien is new to the world, she is in fact only 15 days old, in fact she should be 15 years old. She meets Melody who is a new girl in town who has a new face and new life in their sleepy little town of Salem Oregon where monsters will walk freely among everyone. There is Lala, Cleo, Claudeen, and also a few others who are the same way.
The story is great and its fine and fun romp, wouldn't you want to be a monster too?
Movies
How to Train your Dragon
*****
Hiccup lives in a village that is plagued with a rather HUGE problem, and that problem DRAGONS! He finds that he wants to kill a dragon, but when he wounds one, he discovers what he was raised with may not even be true.
Okay, I thought, great another kids movie, but sitting there, and I saw humor that was unlike the normal and I started to think that somehow with my love the scaly things, it deserves it place. I love this movie.
Sunshine Sketch
Ume Aoki
****
Yuno is a new student at one of the most prestegious art schools in Japan. In fact she feels almost honored to make it. She goes to live at the dorms or rather the school run apartments and finds out that there are stranger things other than her classes, its her classmates. She learns that they are creative, silly and friendly.
I liked this series simply for the reminder that friends can show in the strangest of places including dorms and also in school.
Anime
Ghost Stories
***
Satsuki and her brother move to her mother's home town and finds out more than it appears. Her father appears to be attentive and works hard, not to mention he doesn't appear to know much about the mother either. They move in also next door to Hajime whose best friend is interested in ghosts. Soon they find out that ghosts follow Satsuki's family all over the place. So with their plotting demon possessed cat they are out to trap demons and get rid of the evils of the world.
This series is CRACK! Okay, it isn't just the fact that if you do watch it, please watch it in Japanese with English subs, if you watch it in English, you are in for a comedy of a life time. I do enjoy it, but again, its the fact I do like some comedy anime with a lot more to it.
Shiki
*****
Sotobamura is a small village out in the middle of no where and it is becoming a ghost town, in fact it is hidden and almost completely isolated. Not to mention people are dying of a strange plague that came in the middle of the day when three members of a family are found completely dead and drained of blood. Then Megumi a hyper girl who loves gazing at a European style house on the hill goes missing.
I enjoyed this series it is rather scary and dark, I feel it should deserving of vampire movies and also has a classic feel to it.
Books
Monster High
Lisa Harrison
*****
Frankie Stien is new to the world, she is in fact only 15 days old, in fact she should be 15 years old. She meets Melody who is a new girl in town who has a new face and new life in their sleepy little town of Salem Oregon where monsters will walk freely among everyone. There is Lala, Cleo, Claudeen, and also a few others who are the same way.
The story is great and its fine and fun romp, wouldn't you want to be a monster too?
Movies
How to Train your Dragon
*****
Hiccup lives in a village that is plagued with a rather HUGE problem, and that problem DRAGONS! He finds that he wants to kill a dragon, but when he wounds one, he discovers what he was raised with may not even be true.
Okay, I thought, great another kids movie, but sitting there, and I saw humor that was unlike the normal and I started to think that somehow with my love the scaly things, it deserves it place. I love this movie.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Reviews for October!
Books
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By Alvin Schwartz
*****
Stories from America's haunted places, people who are affected, this is a new edition with a lot of new artwork and scary stories we grew up with. Including the ever famous, Hearse song, The Hook, High Beams, and stories that are urban legends. Meant to scare you, tingle down your spine and fun around the camp fire.
This book is impossible not to have in your library, if you are a small child to an adult, this collection is always a must, with wit and funny stories, even stories based on true events. The ghost stories are always a hit for any age.
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By Alvin Schwartz
*****
The sequal to the famous first book in the series, more stories that could scare you senseless, having you trembling. These based on American stories passed down from over the years, some funny, some just plain freaky where you don't know what is going on.
Again a collection that I feel earns their place on a Halloween hit list of scary books and fun things to read around this time of year!
Manga
xxxHolic Volumes 1
by Clamp
****
A good story that follows a misadventure of a ghost seeing boy named Watanuki who learns that his powers are connected to the time space witch, Yuko who runs a less than well known little store that grants wishes. In the first volume Watanuki learns a little bit about what it means working for the witch who is about to grant his wish about not seeing ghosts.
This haunting book earns its place on scale of Halloween stories, it is creepy and interesting, the characters range from ghosts, Japanese sprites and more. Watanuki learns how valuable his powers truly are and how important it is to help.
Movies
Underworld
*****
Set in a fictional world where vampires are hunting the werewolves or Lycans who seek out to equal the playing field with finding someone who if bitten by both could bring about equality. Vampires considering themselves higher than the werewolves and forcing these creatures into hiding and almost killing them when finding them. Discover that are is an air of mistrust and also a bit of a lies of what vampires truly do.
This is a more of an action film and less of the horror that people would expect, it has the vampires and werewolves from legend, but more of an action based with little horror in it. I would say it is great for the watch, but you don't have the horror aspect.
Poltergiest
****
A classic tale of the haunted house, an American family all normal and living in a suburban paradise find out there house isn't so normal. Their little girl is talking to people she calls TV people, and one night in a storm, she is taken from her bed into the dark world. Ghosts and more are waiting for this family as they seek out some way to figure out what is going on in their house.
This is a classic for Halloween and it gives a new look at what is called parapsychology, this is a realistic and also shows what people did during the time to study hauntings in nations starting from 1980 to present. So it is an all time YES for Halloween!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By Alvin Schwartz
*****
Stories from America's haunted places, people who are affected, this is a new edition with a lot of new artwork and scary stories we grew up with. Including the ever famous, Hearse song, The Hook, High Beams, and stories that are urban legends. Meant to scare you, tingle down your spine and fun around the camp fire.
This book is impossible not to have in your library, if you are a small child to an adult, this collection is always a must, with wit and funny stories, even stories based on true events. The ghost stories are always a hit for any age.
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By Alvin Schwartz
*****
The sequal to the famous first book in the series, more stories that could scare you senseless, having you trembling. These based on American stories passed down from over the years, some funny, some just plain freaky where you don't know what is going on.
Again a collection that I feel earns their place on a Halloween hit list of scary books and fun things to read around this time of year!
Manga
xxxHolic Volumes 1
by Clamp
****
A good story that follows a misadventure of a ghost seeing boy named Watanuki who learns that his powers are connected to the time space witch, Yuko who runs a less than well known little store that grants wishes. In the first volume Watanuki learns a little bit about what it means working for the witch who is about to grant his wish about not seeing ghosts.
This haunting book earns its place on scale of Halloween stories, it is creepy and interesting, the characters range from ghosts, Japanese sprites and more. Watanuki learns how valuable his powers truly are and how important it is to help.
Movies
Underworld
*****
Set in a fictional world where vampires are hunting the werewolves or Lycans who seek out to equal the playing field with finding someone who if bitten by both could bring about equality. Vampires considering themselves higher than the werewolves and forcing these creatures into hiding and almost killing them when finding them. Discover that are is an air of mistrust and also a bit of a lies of what vampires truly do.
This is a more of an action film and less of the horror that people would expect, it has the vampires and werewolves from legend, but more of an action based with little horror in it. I would say it is great for the watch, but you don't have the horror aspect.
Poltergiest
****
A classic tale of the haunted house, an American family all normal and living in a suburban paradise find out there house isn't so normal. Their little girl is talking to people she calls TV people, and one night in a storm, she is taken from her bed into the dark world. Ghosts and more are waiting for this family as they seek out some way to figure out what is going on in their house.
This is a classic for Halloween and it gives a new look at what is called parapsychology, this is a realistic and also shows what people did during the time to study hauntings in nations starting from 1980 to present. So it is an all time YES for Halloween!
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