By Marty Mulrooney
The Midnight Palace is a novel written for young adults by Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Originally published in 1994 as El Palacio de la Medianoche, this new edition from Orion books – available both as a young adult edition and in a collector’s adult edition – has been faithfully translated into English by Lucia Graves. It is May 1916 and an exhausted man is being pursued through the dark streets of Calcutta, sheltering two newborn babies beneath his jacket…
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By Marty Mulrooney
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is a video game based on the film of the same name (reviewed here), developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft. Tintin and Snowy must team up with Captain Haddock as they travel the world in search of the secret of the Unicorn, in a loose retelling of the film.
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By Marty Mulrooney
One Life is a major feature length production from BBC Earth Films, narrated by actor Daniel Craig and directed by Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes from the BBC Natural History Unit. More than four years in the making and put together from over 10,000 hours of incredible animal footage, the film has been created for a family audience and reveals the universal bonds that connect all living creatures on our planet.
Filed under Film
By Kim Newman
Give me a hansom cab, a magnifying glass, a diabolical mystery, a deerstalker, a rattled-off deduction and Dr Watson being baffled, and I’m usually happy. I enjoy most Sherlock Holmes films – with the exception of the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore version of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the likes of Sherlock Homie: The Ass Detective, of course – but here I select my particular favourites, highlighting slightly off-the-beaten-track efforts.
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