Rocky IV dir. by Sylvester Stallone
Oh Rocky IV, the worst of the Rocky films in some ways. But also the most Rocky in others. Also, the film that is pretty much all montage. I mean, how...
20 October 2018
First man [based on book] by James R. Hansen dir. by Damien Chazelle
It’s strange, having been born post the moon landings, the fact that a person has walked on the moon has always been true for me. So in some weird sense it...
13 October 2018
Rocky dir. by John G. Avildsen
I cannot believe I’ve never reviewed Rocky before, but then again it is one of those films I’ve seen so many times, and before blogging was ever a thing, so in...
22 September 2018
Scott Pilgrim’s precious little life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim #1 Many years ago, seven in fact, I watched the film that this series of books were adapted into. I did not enjoy the film. So I never pursued...
24 August 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
If you want to read a book that’ll really show how horrific people can be to one another then this is it. It tells the story of the murders of Mollie...
7 August 2018
Jane, the fox, and me by Fanny Britt
Translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou Oh, this is a beautiful book. The art work is just lovely, I love the style of it. Simple, often black and white, but...
29 June 2018
Hereditary dir. by Ari Aster
The best way to see this film is to know nothing in advance. So if you haven’t seen it stop reading now. Although, in fairness I think that that is good...
16 June 2018
Jurassic World: Fallen kingdom dir. by J.A. Bayona
Remember how awesome Jurassic Park was? Remember the reality of the dinosaurs, of the wonder that the audience shared with the characters? Remember the horror and panic as things went wrong?...
9 June 2018
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, an infamous murderer in Canada in the 1840’s, Atwood’s book uses different narrators to tell the story, as well as interspersing the story with extracts from other works. From poems, fiction, newspapers of the time, and other sources. Although this is based on the real story, Atwood has, of course, fictionalised a great deal of the novel.
The two narrators are Grace herself, who tells her story in the first person, past tense, and Simon Jordan, the doctor investigating her claims of insanity or innocence. His parts are told by a third person narrator, and are in the present tense.
4 June 2018
The valley of fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes ; 4 or 7, depending on how you are counting. This is the fourth and final of the novels by Doyle. In it Holmes and Watson head to Birlstone...
30 April 2018
A quiet place dir. by John Krasinski
Imagine a world where you couldn’t make a sound. No talking, no laughing. Not even walking with shoes on. A world where the response to noise is death. No imagine being...
22 April 2018
Wild : a journey from lost to found by Cheryl Strayed
Sometimes the blurb of a book can be a tad off putting. I remember when I first became aware of Wild : a journey from lost to found a few years...
21 April 2018
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