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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie – Song of the sea




Score : 7/10  
Year : 2014
Director:  Tomm Moore
Country: Ireland.  Denmark. Belgium. Luxembourg. France
Language: English. Irish. Scottish Gaelic 
Duration: 1h33

Writers: Will Collins & Tomm Moore (story) 

Beautifully written fable, Song of the sea is one of those rare movies which incorporates mythology - in this case Irish/Scottish. It's art, however, leaves much to be desired ; especially the look of all characters which is much too simplistic and childish. It's a shame that the animation doesn't share the same high standards as the rest of this movie, because it had the potential for it : the mouvement flows very nicely and fluently, following Ben & his sister Saoirse (pronounced : seer-shə) in their adventure to free faeries from their immobility and save their world... 

Very poetic, song of the sea explores self growth to self assertion, through the characters' evolution. It also explores the place of emotions and symbols in our world, and the positive relationship humans can have with animals.... 

I have to admit that I had to watch this movie with subtitles, because there was a lot of mumbling, with thick Irish accents, which are difficult for me to understand.

In spite of this and its shortcoming art, I enjoyed Song of the Sea and suggest watching it with your children and discuss the symbols therein. It's much better to do that than letting them watch senseless and pointless fast paced animation for the attention deficit disorder... 

 Voice acting : Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Lucy O'connel, Jon Kenny, et al 


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