Monthly Archives: March 2017

Jeff VanderMeer – Shriek: An Afterword (2006)

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

Why did the mushroom join the party? Because he is a fungi.  8/10 Shriek: An Afterthought sounds like the final novel in a series, but it is actually the second book in Jeff Vandermeer’s Ambergris series. It follows on City … Continue reading →

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Day of the Dead (1985)

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 Day of the Dead, the third film in George A. Romero’s original zombie trilogy, is a lot darker and psychologically more claustrophobic than his previous films. In the last film, civilians holed themselves up in a large shopping mall … Continue reading →

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Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms; The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (2011)

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

Maybe you know the feeling when you’re on a holiday in some corner of Europe, and you visit a castle and you read in your Lonely Planet guide about some ancient kingdom that used to exist there. And for a … Continue reading →

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Train to Busan (2016) Review

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 While there are rumors going round about a sequel to World War Z, I would stress any director of that supposed sequel to put on Train to Busan, and study this film to understand how to make a focused, … Continue reading →

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Yoon Ha Lee – Ninefox Gambit (2016)

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

Genre: Science fiction / space opera Series: Machineries of Empire 1 Pages: 317 My rating: 8.5/10 When I casually jumped into this novel, it kicked me in the nuts and flung me right out again. The first chapter was like … Continue reading →

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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 This film could only ever be a product of the 80s. I mean, everybody was kung fu fighting. Ninjas were everywhere on the big screen. What could be more 80s than a Chinese street gang in San Francisco who … Continue reading →

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Kong: Skull Island (2017) Review

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

6.5/10 Samuel L. Jackson flies to King Kong’s island? Hold on to your butts! Kong: Skull Island is not just another new King Kong movie. It is part of an effort to create a cinematic universe that will tie the … Continue reading →

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T.J. Bass – Half Past Human (1971)

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10. Imagine 3 trillion clones of Rick Moranis living underground. This novel is completely bonkers. Both its imagined future and its writing style are completely out of control. Ok. So, Half Past Human is set in the 24th century, and … Continue reading →

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Snowpiercer (2013) Review

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 The first time I saw this movie, I couldn’t stand it! I saw it as just another science fiction allegory about class differences in a post-apocalyptic world, but nothing about it made any sense to me. You know, it … Continue reading →

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Mike Dash – Tulipomania (1999) Review

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

The story of the world’s most coveted flower & the extraordinary passions it aroused. At the height of the tulip craze in the 17th century, a single tulip bulb in Holland was worth many times its weight in gold. It … Continue reading →

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