Lord Samper's Library

Same film, just a different name depending on where you see it... My copy is called 'Kill Zombie' so that's what I'll call it here. I'm managing to get a few pages read here and there but on the whole, reading is going about as well as you'd expect on a Bank Holiday weekend with two young kids who want something to do... Yeah, that well ;o) That's ok though, there's always time to read but there's never quite enough time to spend with your kids, make the most of it while you have it. And that's why today sees another 'zombie movie' post, by the time I made it home (last night) after a day in Richmond, watching a movie was about all I was good for. I needed something mindless and fun, luckily I had a copy of 'Kill Zombie' to hand and an hour and twenty two minutes later... After a night in jail, four hung-over friends and one gutsy female police officer emerge to discover their city ravaged by a zombie outbreak. W

I love Bank Holidays :o) When I wake up in the morning, my first thoughts aren't going to be along the lines of what's waiting for me at work on Monday. And if that wasn't enough, next week is only going to be four days long. Yep, there is literally nothing negative about Bank Holidays, they're the gift that keeps on giving :o) I'm in need of this Bank Holiday in particular as last week was crazy what with one thing and another; nothing horrible, just one of those weeks where you get to the end of it and just know that you deserve a long weekend. The gout hasn't helped either (and the tablets I was given really didn't help...) but I'm hoping it will die down over the next few days. Fingers crossed... All of this is a slightly roundabout way of saying that we all know what happens when Graeme has a stressful week, don't we...? Yep, a few more books came my way than usual and now I really need to make some inroads into the TBR pile before I buy any

What's the best way to get over watching an absolutely dreadful zombie movie? Well, there are loads of 'best ways' as it happens, all involving watching pretty much anything other than 'Zombie 108'. My 'best way' though, came about as a result of a wander down Deptford High Street and a quick stop off in CEX. To be honest, I'd completely forgotten that 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' was even a thing (I enjoy a half decent 'Godzilla' movie but it's not my main fandom) but when I saw it, I had to check it out. And so I did, 'Godzilla: King of Monsters' may have its problems (which I'll go into) but it ended up being a more than half decent 'Godzilla' movie. It's five years since Godzilla fought the Mutoes and since then, m embers of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch have tracked and contained further emergences of the 'Titans', monsters that have come to light since Godzilla appeared. When

I’ve said it before but I like saying it so I’ll say it again… I love watching zombie movies. Good, bad, mediocre, filmed on my phone using my ‘Walking Dead’ action figures (ahem); I’ll watch pretty much anything and be able to come up with at least one reason why I think you’d enjoy it. Well, until today anyway. It turns out that I really don’t do so well with zombie films that are just, well… offensive and are barely zombie movies at all. And with that, let me introduce you to ‘Zombie 108’…     After a catastrophic accident at a top secret research lab, a deadly virus is released into the city and all hell breaks loose. Controlled by a local crime lord, District 108 is the one place in the city the police don't want to go on a normal day. But today is not a normal day, and the crack SWAT team ordered to help evacuate the uninfected must do just that. Met with fierce resistance by the local gangs, both sides suffer heavy casualties before realising that the guys with

I've pretty much given up on the 'Elric Re-Read' updates at this point. I don't know what's going on, let's just say that if a book could laugh in your face whenever you happen to look at it... 'Elric of Melnibone' would be laughing one hell of a lot right now. 'Corum' though... It's taken a little longer than I'd thought it would but I've actually gone and finished the first three books of 'Corum'. I'm just going to take a minute and feel a little pleased with myself for finishing a series, even though it's only three (very short) books long and I've read it before. Look my gout is killing me tonight, I need something to be happy about ;o) Over these three books, I've gradually found out that Corum isn't as in control of his fate as I originally thought; it turns out that various Gods (Chaos and Law) have more say in this than Corum does so my original thoughts on Corum 'making things h

I've read a few Warhammer 40K books in my time (and at the same time not nearly enough, I will keep on reading...) and apart from a few exceptions, it's mostly focused either around humanity and its defenders or those (post) human traitors who want to bring it all down. CAVEAT: This is all based on what I've been able to read so far, let me know if I'm missing out on an Ork-centric piece or whatever ;o) This being the case, when I saw a book that was all about Genestealers, I was all over it the second I got paid. I've only seen Genestealers as an afterthought, in a Word Bearers novel (and again, please tell me if there's another Genestealer book out there that I've missed?), so I was really interested to see if and how they could hold up for an entire novel. And if that wasn't enough, Peter Fehervari seems to be a bit of a Black Library 'hidden treasure', if the Amazon reviews etc were anything to go by so I was more intrigued than ever

After the ‘slightly mad but happy to send itself up a little’ awesomeness of ‘Deep Blue Sea’ was followed by the ‘taking itself a little too seriously and not in a good way’ disappointment of ‘Deep Blue Sea 2’, things were finely balanced for my watching of ‘Deep Blue Sea 3’. I love slightly contrived situations like this as it feels like the whole fate of a franchise hangs on one film and I’m going to be there to see what happens… In an event I never saw coming this year, I actually went and pre-ordered my copy of ‘Deep Blue Sea 3’ which is just something I never thought I’d hear myself say. It makes you wonder (well, it makes me wonder) how the Hollywood types decide that a film is suddenly ripe to be turned into a franchise, especially one that has been left to do its own thing for just over twenty years. Not that I’m complaining, I love a fun shark film, it just makes me wonder that’s all. But back to the film itself. I watched it last night and it ended up being the film

On Saturday. I had my favourite kind of walk in the countryside; the kind where I make it out of the car park and about as far as the nearest picnic table, there I sit and read while everyone else does the actual walking. Everyone is happy, but most of all me :o) I'd been meaning to read more of Evan Dicken's 'Age of Sigmar' stuff ever since I read (and enjoyed) 'Fangs of the Rustwood' back in July. My reading schedule is fluid though, to say the least, so I never actually got a chance until a couple of days ago when the rest of the family were little dots on the horizon and I suddenly remembered that I had 'The Red Hours' waiting patiently on my Kindle. So of course I settled down to read it and 'The Red Hours' ended up being worth the wait. I love it when everything works out like that :o) 'The Red Hours' isn't the novel length tale that I wanted but there is plenty there to entertain and chill in the meantime... At th

It's not often that coming up with a title, for a post, absolutely stumps me but, here we are :o) It's gone one in the morning and any inspiration has decided to go to bed, like I should do really but the party next door has only just stopped and there's no way that sleep is happening right now. Oh well, at least there's one more day of weekend left... I wasn't expecting an awful lot out of this week as far as 'book hunting' goes, I've been trying to concentrate on the TBR pile (rather than add to it!) and that's been quite nice actually, reading through stuff that's been there a while and remembering why I was so excited to get the book(s) in the first place.  And then payday happened. And then I somehow decided that the best way to prune my Amazon Wishlist was to make a few purchases rather than use the delete button. And then I went in a few charity shops on my way to see the girls. I regret nothing, not one purchase :o) Let me show you wh

Years ago, I was in CEX and saw a DVD of 'Doom' selling for the grand sum of 25p. 'I can't go too far wrong for 25p' I naively thought to myself, 'even if it's rubbish, I'll have only lost 25p on the deal...' Reader, I couldn't have been more wrong. When I look back on the things that I wasted money on in the past (and there are a few) that 25p purchase ranks as one of my worst. If you've seen the film, you'll know exactly what I mean. And yet I spent far too many summers, as a kid, playing 'Doom' (the totally pixellated version, I'm old...) to pass up the chance to watch another 'Doom' movie. I can't help myself. I'd caught half a glance of the trailers for 'Doom: Annihilation', sometime last year, and just knew I'd be watching it sooner or later. It also didn't hurt that it already looked a lot better than the first 'Doom' movie. I watched 'Doom: Annihilation' last

It doesn't feel like a month ago that I read Volume One of 'Black Road' but the blog says that I did and who am I to doubt the blog...? Where is the time going these days? You can go back and read the review if you like but the bottom line was that Volume One was a beautiful comic book (writing and artwork) that came across as a little too straightforward, only to smack you in the face with a betrayal just when you were wondering whether to pick up Volume Two or not. There was no question in my mind as to whether I'd be continuing with the story so one payday later, here I am ready to go again.'A Pagan Death' is not the comic that you think you'll be reading but you need to read it, let me tell you about it... Having located Bishop Oakenfort on the extreme northern coast of Norssk, Magnus The Black moves in on this rogue Vatican outpost with the intent to shut it down. But as formidable a Viking warrior as Magnus is, he is still one man versus a f

So, today was meant to be a book review post but I ate a lot of pizza last night and didn't finish off either of the books that I was planning to write about, It happens :o) Nope, when pizza is involved, you won't find me reading but you will find me watching a movie and the 'Deep Blue Sea 2' DVD turned up a day earlier than expected so the evening pretty much arranged itself really. Onto the next round of ludicrous shark action then! Or, as it happened, not ... Thank goodness there's only one more film to watch after this. Actually, that's being a little harsh but 'Deep Blue Sea 2' wasn't what I was hoping for... Years ago, the Aquatica Project used genetically altered sharks in hopes to develop a cutting-edge cure for Alzheimer’s disease. They came close to achieving their goal, but an unforeseen tragedy derailed the experiment. Now, pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Monroe is conducting his own experiments on sharks, with nothing les

When I saw that 'Deep Blue Sea 3' is out on DVD soon (and I know it's on Prime right now but... DVD's cheaper) my first thought was something along the lines of, 'Three? I didnt even know there was a Deep Blue Sea 2...' My second thought was pretty much, 'it's been too long since I watched something utterly ludicrous involving sharks' so... Here we are then at the start of 'Deep Blue Sea Watch', a three post feature that doesn't need an awful lot of explaining, if any ;o) Way back in 1999, I was off on long term sick leave and was given a free cinema pass by my then wife. That was how I got acquainted with 'Deep Blue Sea', acquainted several times as it happened; it's great having a free cinema ticket but I found out the hard way that if you don't pace yourself, you're going to end up seeing the same film over and over again... That's probably why 'Deep Blue Sea' was never really a film that I wa

If there was one thing that I learnt from my holiday it's that Google Maps and I can never be friends. That's a story that you really don't want to hear though as it has nothing to do with books and that's what you're really here for, isn't it? What...? No, I'm still not going to tell you. Lets just keep our focus on the books and random films that serve for content round here ;o) If there was one other thing that I learnt from my holiday, it's that setting myself reading challenges is only going to leave me all red-faced at the end of the week. There was so much other cool stuff happening that reading didn't really happen at all. I did finish one book though. Well... more like half a book really as I took 'The Queen of the Swords' with me, half read, as an 'easy win' if you know what I mean ;o) Still, I'm taking little victories wherever I can find them these days so, it counts :o) My 'Corum Re-Read' is stagger