Les Schtroumpfs noirs
Les Schtroumpfs noirs, by Peyo 7.75 Whoah… it’s been sooooooooooo long since I’ve read this book. Perhaps as long as 30 years, even. I’m surprised by how well it holds […]
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La Guerre des 7 fontaines
La Guerre des 7 fontaines, by Peyo 7.0 This Johan et Pirlouit adventure features the second appearance by the Smurfs. The tale was published in segments in Spirou magazine and […]
Neko no ongaeshi
Synopsis: Journey To A Magical World From the creators of the Academy Award winning SPIRITED AWAY (Best Animated Feature Film, 2002) comes the visually stunning THE CAT RETURNS. Haru, a […]
La Flûte à six schtroumpfs
La Flûte à six schtroumpfs, by Peyo 7.75 After watching the dreadful Smurfs movie, I decided that I would cleanse my palate by revisiting the original Smurfs, or Schtroumpfs, books […]
Magnum Force
Synopsis: Underworld figures are being murdered all over San Francisco. One by one, criminals who have eluded prosecution are getting the justice they deserve, justice you’d think Detective Harry Callahan […]
Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People
Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, by Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu 6.75 This book was dropped into my hands by my gf the other day, while we were dawdling […]
Dirty Harry
Synopsis: In one of his signature roles, Clint Eastwood plays a streetwise San Francisco police detective who gets the job done. A rooftop sniper (Andy Robinson) calling himself Scorpio has […]
Daybreak
Daybreak, by Brian Ralph 8.0 ‘Daybreak’ is a book that I probably wouldn’t have been reeled in by at first glance, but it was recommended by a friend of mine. […]
Les Dalton
Synopsis: Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history, whose criminal failures are such that their own mother […]
Lucky Luke (2009)
Synopsis: James Huth helms this live-action adaptation of the long-running Belgian comic book series — first published in the 1940s — that is equal parts homage to and a parody […]
The Smurfs
Synopsis: When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours — in fact, smack dab in […]
The Fugitive
Synopsis: A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through this breathless manhunt movie inspired by one classic TV […]
Three Fugitives
Synopsis: Funnyman Martin Short plays an inept, klutzy bank robber who, on his first heist, grabs Nick Nolte as a hostage. Nolte plays a notorious ex-con who is trying to […]
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