Sunday, 31 July 2016

"Too Many Targets," by John Peel and Dave Rogers

Novel, 1990

Brisk fiction for Avengers fans, bringing the whole set of main protagonists - Steed and all his partners - from each of the 1960s series. There's a familiar, reborn protagonist as well. Fans will probably either despair of the canon being mucked about or delight in the retro implausibility of what is, after all, an old and always fantastically tongue-in-cheek series. For all these reasons, it's hard to critique; this is a book pretty much solely driving a plot which fairly adeptly juggles characters and situations which work better on screen.

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

"Suffragette," directed by Sarah Gavron

Movie, 2015

Really solid, likeable, worthy though somehow flat film about the women's suffrage movement leading up to Emily Davison throwing herself in front of the King's horse on derby Day. There was, however, a lack of a spark in the telling of the story, as if any disrespecting of the narrative or misrepresentation of any of the characters would have caused the movie to collapse into itself. So, a little plodding in places. A good film overall and a good way of finding out about the movement, just perhaps a little 'safe' and 'staid'.


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