DVD of the Week: American Sniper

Welcome to 2016! With a New Year, a chance to settle back into some old routines now the Xmas decorations are packed away and (most of) the chocolate is eaten, we got our first proper movie night over the weekend. American Sniper has been sat on top of the TV stand for a few weeks now, passed over in favour of lighter and then festive fare. It was one of those movies that felt like it would be a harder watch, and much of the publicity I recall about it was vaguely (if non-specifically) controversial, although at the same time well reviewed, and that sort of added to the unease. However I'm generally well-disposed to Clint Eastwood as a director, and so it became the movie to start the year with. 

Book Review: Round Up!

So, we are still in "round up" mode and this time it's all the reading I've been doing. Somehow, I feel I'm making more time for reading this year (writing being a whole different story, sadly) and I'm making an effort to try new stuff that I've missed. I also want to make a bit of a return to the Science Fiction genre, which I've not been deep into for many years now, hence the prescene on this list of a couple of "classic" series that have been mentioned us as we've put out new episodes of Dissecting Worlds. So, with apologies for the brevity, lets get on with catching up.

DVD of the Week: Fury

David Ayer has found himself high in the geek consciousness recently with the upcoming release of Suicide Squad, which will be the second of DCs roll-out (or third, I guess, if Man of Steel is the first) of their big shared universe. He's a good choice for the fine fellows of Task Force X, with a back catalogue as a writer and director of manly films about manly men bonding and doing manly violence. I really enjoyed End of Watch, for instance, focused on the relationship between two cops, and so it was with some anticipation we stuck on Fury, about a tank crew in the dying days of World War 2.