We begin at the end by Chris Whitaker
This is one of those books I would never have picked up if it hadn’t been a book club selection, and readily available from the library when I was looking for...
2 January 2021
Se7en dir. by David Fincher
I can still remember going to see this film in the cinema more than twenty years ago. It is one of those films that has always stayed with me. And what’s...
9 March 2018
Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri dir. by Martin McDonagh
Ever since I first heard about this film I was hoping it would come to my local cinema. Frances McDormand is a wonderful actor and usually played fascinating characters. But then...
13 January 2018
L.A. Confidential [based on the book] by James Ellroy dir. by Curtis Hanson
Everything is suspect…everyone is for sale…and nothing is what it seems.
22 April 2017
End of Watch dir. by David Ayer
The opening voice-over to this film was almost enough to make me turn if off straight away, but then I would have had to find something else to watch, so I...
2 August 2015
Foxcatcher dir. by Bennett Miller
Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) won gold at the 1984 Olympics. As did his older brother David (Mark Ruffalo). Now they are in training for the Worlds, and then they’ll be focusing...
18 January 2015
The Drop [based on the short story] by Dennis Lehane dir. by Michaël R. Roskam
Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) works in a bar in Brooklyn. The pub used to belong to his cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), where it gets its name from “Cousin Marv’s”, but when...
16 November 2014
The Sopranos dir. by Allen Coulter, John Patterson, Timothy Van Patten
I’ve recently rewatched The Sopranos[1] well, some of the episodes I never caught in the first place, so in many ways it wasn’t a rewatch, although I knew where it was...
11 April 2010
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