GS: Adam, it’s been great hearing from you and we wish you luck with the nomination and sales of your new book. You’re one of our writers to watch out for with some fantastic pieces of work behind you already. Looking forward to reading Last Days.
Geek Syndicate
AN: Thank you for the kind words, Phil, and for nailing me to the virtual walls of the Geek Syndicate!
Last Days is out now and will be available from all good bookshops and online. In the meantime you can find out more about Adam at http:// www.adamlgnevill.com/.
Phil Ambler
FILM REVIEW - Tomorrow When the War Began
friends, these eight extraordinary teenagers must learn to escape, survive and fight back against a hostile military force. One night whilst they are camping, they spot an entire squadron of planes flying overhead. Not one of them thinks this is unusual, or tries to contact the outside world for an update. In any event, after their time is done on their trip, and not presuming anything is amiss, they decide to return back to their home town. The town is now completely deserted: cars left in the streets, half eaten meals left on tables and so on. Passing the collective brain-cell around one another, they deduce that something is awry, and that maybe the squadron of planes had something to do with it. Having concluded this, they decide to head to their respective homesteads. Now, having arrived at the homestead(s) after only a long weekend away, there is not a soldier to be seen anywhere en-route– no patrols, no stations, no foot soldiers – nothing! All the families of the characters have disappeared and just to emphasise the gravity of the situation, there is this banal scene regarding the seriousness of a dead dog they find! Clearly the makers of this film have never seen a BBC or CNN news-report from Iraq or Afghanistan: an “occupation” by any other name,
The Review:
I have to admit, I really hated this film, and I feel completely vindicated in feeling so… The story concerns what I consider to be a group of the usual cliché characters based in some “back-water” town Australia: the jock, the princess, the maverick, the brain (in this case, the token ethnic, thrown in for good measure), etc. They decide to take a camping trip for a few days out into “the Bush” to… well, do the things that youngsters do! But not quite – the first thing you spot
Writers: Stuart Beattie based on the novel by James Marsden Director: Stuart Beattie Starring: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Lincoln Lewis
The Blurb:
From the writer of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and one of the producers of the Matrix trilogy comes a story of action, drama and heroism. Tomorrow, When The War Began follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no one saw coming. Cut off from their families and their
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here is that this is a bunch of “young adults”, including one clearly juvenile delinquent with a criminal record and yet there’s a distinct lack of alcohol in there packs!