by Patrick Coffin | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Movie Review — My Sisters Keeper The story centres around a teenage girl, Kate Fitzgerald dying of cancer. Her younger sister, Anna is eleven, was born or rather engineered to help her sister, as neither her younger brother Jesse or her mother Sara and her...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Movie Review — The Road to Perdition This is the first time I have watched Road to Perdition since it was in the cinemas in 2002. This is possibly one of my favourite crime, gangster movies I have seen. In Rock Island, Illinois, 1931, Michael Sullivan’s...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 12, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — Brave New World “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy” “All right then,” said the Savage...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 12, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Book Review — Charlemagne This was a massive work about the man who is often called “the father of Europe”. I can only cover a fragment, and I may not even do a good job of this. When Charlemagne died in 814 AD (I have never liked CE) he left behind a...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 12, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Movie Review –The Shawshank Redemption Here is another review that was hard to do, as it is so familiar and I know I will subconsciously be borrowing from other people work or commentary. Anyway, this movie, totally centres around one man, Andy Dufresne who...
by Patrick Coffin | Jun 12, 2021 | Blog, Books and Movies
Movie Review — An Officer and a Gentleman Zachary Mayo as a teenager, ends up with his father, in the Philippines after his mother committed suicide in America. His father is a navy sailor, a Senior Chief Boatswain Mate, who was reluctant to bring up his son...
