by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Ray Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2018, 448pp, RRP $35.00, ebook $16.99 Even John Lennon’s most diehard fans might baulk at the idea of yet another biography of the man (1940 – 1980), and yet Connolly can claim to have been far closer to his subject than most other...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stephen Hawking (Hachette Australia) 2018, 232pp, RRP $32.99, eBook $16.99 Professor Stephen Hawking died on March 14, many years after he was predicted to depart this life, and this final (or maybe not?) volume of autobiography, self-analysis, sweet wit and sometimes...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2018, 132pp, RRP $29.99, ebook $29.99 The impossibly prolific King’s latest comes soon after his epic collaboration with his son Owen (Sleeping Beauties) and his similarly lengthy solo effort The Outsider, and understandably and...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
M.R. Carey (Hachette Australia) 2018, 500pp, RRP $29.99, hardback $45.00, eBook $14.99 M(ike).R. Carey’s latest returns to the paranormal realms of his Fellside (rather than the sci-fi/horror of his best-known book The Girl With All The Gifts and its sequel The Boy On...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated M 2.5 stars (out of 5) Drawn from George Harrar’s book of almost the same name, this ponderous, pseudo-intellectual psychodrama has a pretty good lead performance by Guy Pearce as a character it’s impossible to like, but the slow...