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Film Review: Stardust

Posted by gav on October 20, 2007 under review

If there is a film to restore your faith in the movies it has to be Stardust.A boy makes a promise to cross The Wall and bring back a falling star - but he isn’t the only one looking for it and the star isn’t exactly a chunk of rock.

Stardust is a modern fairy tale, which produces clichés then deals with them with a big dose of common sense.

It has everything that a fairy tale needs; a quest mixed with a love story, villains that are more misguided than evil and pirates who owe a little nod to Johnny Depp.

There are stellar performances throughout.

I really can’t praise it enough. It really is what a blockbuster should be.

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Waiting

Posted by gav on June 25, 2007 under Uncategorized


‘No, don’t touch that.’
I could hear the screams echoing up the well as I looked into the blackness.
I stared into the darkness not blinking, hoping that I’d see a light. Hoping I would see the shine of a torch. So I’d know that one or both of them had started to climb to safety. But instead, what came started as a rumble in the ground like a heartbeat getting faster and faster until its rhythm filled my ears and it was joined by the sound of nails scrapping stone.
And I knew it was trying to grip the rocks below me.
It was now coming for me.  

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