Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Johnny Depp is… Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (A Tim Burton Film)
Movie was excellent so I am no doubt going to read the original novel. I didn’t know that Johnny Depp could sing! Amazing! It’s rated R for ‘Graphic Bloody Violence’ — I think I’ve seen more violence in PG films but there certainly is an excessive amount of blood and Todd (Depp) relishes every drop. Helena Bonham Carter is equally excellent as the co-star. We’ve all seen parodies of this story so I was curious to see something based on Sondheim/Wheeler’s original work. I was not disappointed. The story itself is quite distrubing with all the twists you’d expect from a classic thriller.
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Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984
Interesting, can definitely see where we got our ideas about cyberspace and ‘the matrix’. Not usually my kind of sci-fi so it was an effort to read especially with the unfamiliar use of language and technical terms. If you want to know how or from where cyberspace came to be, or if you liked the movies Johnny Mnemonic
Beowulf Movie Review
I really didn’t care for ‘Beowulf’ – I just wasn’t expecting the entire film to be CGI. I’m not saying it was bad… but I definitely would have been pissed had I paid to see this at the theatre. A better film version of the poem is ‘Beowulf & Grendell’ (tho neither are true to the text). As I’ve said so many times before… READ THE BOOK PEOPLE!
