Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
The Amazing Telemachus Family were about to reach dizzying heights of fame and fortune in the 1970s, when a live television magic display went all wrong and they were revealed as...
13 October 2017
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Emma Bull is an author I have been meaning to read for a long time. She was one of the first to start the whole sub-genre of urban fantasy. And although...
2 October 2017
IT [based on the book] by Stephen King dir. by Andy Muschietti
I have vague recollections of seeing the tv adaptation that was made of this book years ago. And even vaguer of reading the actual book. I went through a Stephen King...
20 September 2017
Detroit dir. by Kathryn Bigelow
Wow. This is such a great film. I mean, it is so intense and gripping that I never once wanted to look away. It tells the story of a group of...
18 September 2017
The Dark Tower [based on the books] by Stephen King dir. by Nikolaj Arcel
Many years ago I read the first book in the Stephen King series which inspired this film. I guess the fact that I never read any more in the series says...
21 August 2017
Spider-man: Homecoming dir. by Jon Watts
Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in New York City while fighting crime as his superhero...
18 July 2017
Baby Driver dir. by Edgar Wright
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. (IMDb) Starting off with a bank job and...
15 July 2017
Catfight dir. by Onur Tukel
From the title of this film you’re probably going to expect some bitchiness and maybe hairpulling. Well you get that, plus a whole heap of brutal brutal fighting. Veronica and Ashley...
4 June 2017
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
The Lost City of Z [based on the book] by David Grann dir. by James Gray
[imdb_movie_detail title=”The Lost City of Z” detail=”plot”] Sometimes when you describe a film or a book as “interesting” you really mean that you didn’t like it but don’t really want to...
27 March 2017
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