It was a smart idea to take the apparatus glued to the ear of the world and turn it into a terrorist weapon that turns people into primitive animalistic zombie-like creatures ready to shred fellow crazies as well as the ‘still-humans’ to pieces. Most readers of Cell will never look at their phones in the same way again. Steven King’s exploration of the darker side of human nature is as disturbing in Cell as it is in all of his other novels. Read more on Rant!…

The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a World War II drama set in Molching, Germany. It is narrated by Death, who tells the story of Liesel Meminger – a pre-teen occupied with the complicated task of growing up whilst trying to survive the violence and poverty of a war, which, in the first chapter of the novel, lays claim to her brother and mother. Read more on Rant!…

The man is just a walking ball of talent. It seems so wrong that so much artistic flair should be allocated to one individual. And yet when one is watching the beauty and imagination of stop-motion Sally falling to pieces as she jumps from the turret of her fortress prison; or the dramatic intensity of Sweeney Todd singing to his razor as he contemplates bloody murder; or the comic tragedy of Edward Scissorhands trying assimilate into suburbia by succumbing to its behavioural demands, it seems so right. Read more on Rant!…