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 Thriller’s
phoney tone
Phone Booth
Stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker,
Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Paula Jai Parker. Rated M.
Reviewer: PTE Simone Heyer
The number of senior citizens in the audience should have
been clue enough that Phone Booth was attracting a certain
set.
Now the theory behind this film is sound. Man answers phone
in the last phone booth in New York and if he hangs up, or
gives up the game, he’s dead.
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Real
treat dished up for film-lovers
Dinner Rush
Stars Danny Aiello, Kirk Avevedo, John Corbett, Edoardo
Ballerini, Mike McGlone, Sandra Bernhard, Vivian Wu, Summer
Phonix. Madman Cinema.
Rated MA. 98 mins.
By PTE Simone Heyer
Dinner Rush follows the scenes that take place during the
evening meal at a popular New York trattoria. The scene for
the film is set when we see a trattoria co-owner gunned down,
mafia-style in the street.
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Love
Letters from a War
By
Len Johnson. ABC Books. 282pp. $32.95.
Reviewer: CPL Alisha Welch
This book made me cry. Not just a single poetic tear rolling
down my cheek, but a full-on sob.
It took me a while to read it as I kept putting it aside to
regain composure. I would only admit this if I thought the
book was worth me receiving public ridicule – this one
is.
Something
lacking
Greed
By
Chris Ryan. Century. 313pp. $29.95.
Reviewer: CPL Jonathan Garland
It has become standard for ex-SAS soldiers to write fiction
based on their experiences but Chris Ryan has been at it for
longer than most and, with titles approaching double digits
in number, has staying power in the marketplace.
Courtney
saga rolls on
Blue
Horizon
By Wilbur Smith. Pan Macmillan. 624pp. $49.
By PTE Simone Heyer
Part of the Courtneys-coming-to-Africa series, Blue Horizon
is an epic adventure.
Predominantly set on and around the African continent, also
extending up the coast to the Middle East, Blue Horizons features
cousins Mansur and Jim, sons of Dorian and Tom Courtney.
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