Advantages: Playing spot the cameo Disadvantages: Poorly explained plot
I taped this off TV (when it 1st aired in the UK) and missed the very start. The film was about 10 or so seconds into the titles (I assume) so if anything happened before that I missed it. Lots of people say Mark Hammill is in this but I certainly didn't see him.
I did recognise cameos from Clive Barker (he wrote the Hellraiser series), John Landis (directed American Werewolf In London) and obviously Stephen King doing some really awful acting as the graveyard attendant. Alice Krige looks lovely apart from the scenes where she has the cat face or is in full alien make-up.
Even with the opening titles it's never really explained very well exactly what Sleepwalkers are or where they come from. From the title sequence I assume they are catlike bipeds who live by extracting life-force from humans. I assume they live a long time and these ...
Advantages: Great reading Disadvantages: You may snarl at anyone who interupts your reading.
I received Different Seasons by Stephen King for Christmas, which I have just finished reading. This book is comprised of four long stories or 'novellas' as they are known. Different Seasons is a superb collection which I enjoyed thoroughly; it was first published in 1982 by Macdonald & Co.
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Hope Springs Eternal:
Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption.
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This is told from the perspective of 'Red', a lifer in Shawshank Penitentiary, Maine. Red, who is in for the murder of his wife is the man who can get his hands on anything for the other inmates, for a price, of course. Red does have a conscience though and draws the line at weapons or drugs; so it is with some reservation that he smuggles in a rock hammer for Andy Dufresne, who claims he wants it for his hobby of collecting and shaping rocks ...
Advantages: great harmless entertainment with a good story line Disadvantages: the music is way too loud at times
The Sarah Jane adventures is one of the spin offs from the very successful Doctor Who show, the other spin off being ?Torchwood?, which is aimed at an older audience.
But for anyone that has been living on another planet for the passed few years then you may not know who Sarah Jane Smith is, (either that or you may even have bumped into the Doctor and his blue box).
Sarah Jane was a companion of Doctor Who back in the 1970?s, with the third being , Jon Pertwee, and fourth, Tom Baker.
Since being left on Earth by the Doctor in the 70?s she seemed to have continued to investigate alien events happening on Planet Earth and was initially given her own ?spin off? from Doctor Who back in 1981, involving her and K-9, but at the time it fell a little short in adventure and entertainment.
But, in 2007, after the much loved Doctor Who ...
