Tarting it Up: A Review of Tamasin Day-Lewis’ The Art of the Tart The daughter of poet Cecil-Day Lewis, and sister of actor Daniel, Tamasin Day-Lewis combines sophistication, and high level of literary skill, with considerable culinary capability. Her latest…
Eating on the Run: A review of Survival From the Fittest by Louise Burke, Greg Cox, Nikki Cummings, and Ben Desbrow
The Australian Institute of Sport’s latest cookbook Survival From the Fittest, is the second cookbook in the series, a companion cookbook to their first Survival For the Fittest, and features a range of very easy, quick, and healthy meals, many of which…
The Perfect Non-Diet: A Review of The Real Age Diet: Make Yourself Younger With What You Eat
The medical credentials of the authors is very sound, the advice provided is good, moderate, easy to follow, and there are actually some interesting and innovative suggestions for eating in ways more conducive to good health and good living. What…
Of Woman, Guilt and Love: Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
Atwood’s book takes the basic story as her premise, but uses a number of fictional techniques, primarily the narrative first person, but also letters, newspaper accounts, quotes and bits of poetry and song to create a tale of love, guilt,…
Plucking at our World: David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon
Remembering Babylon is a wonderful book. Malouf’s rich prose, which at times approaches poetry, creates a believable and fascinating lead character in Gemmy, a white man who was raised from boyhood by aborigines who found him nearly drowned after being…
A Review of the film “We Were Soldiers” (From the book We Were Soldiers Once….and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joe Galloway)
We Were Soldiers, the latest in the growing war film trend, is based on the true story of the Americans first encounter with the North Vietnamese in the la Drang Valley. On November 14, 1965, Lt. Col. Harold Moore lead…
A Review of Baz Lurhman’s film version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
This update of Romeo and Juliet is set in verona beach, where the capulet’s and montague’s are dueling coorporate heads. After an opening that is just too silly to be believed, (somehow I don’t think Shakespeare had a gunfight at…
Review of the Film Don’t Say a Word (from the book by Andrew Klavan)
Scriptwriters need to seriously ponder a common mistake made by those taking favored books to screen; the fatal error of assuming that everyone in thetheater has already read the book. In the case of Don’t Say a Word those that have read…
A Philosophical Examination of the film Shattered
Such is the stuff of our nightmares – body snatching, demonic possession, waking up in a strange place, not knowing who we are. Without a continuous personal history – we are not. It is what binds our various bodies, states…
A Review of the film Black Beauty (from the novel by Anna Sewell)
“Black Beauty” is quite a good family film. As a mother, I enjoy watching films with my daughter where I’m not compelled to flee the room after 10 minutes. The scenery is breathtaking, the horses gorgeous, the majority of the…