The shape of water dir. by Guillermo del Toro
A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love...
14 February 2018
The only harmless great thing by Brooke Bolander
I can’t remember where I first say mention of The only harmless great thing, and I never noted it down on Mount TBR, so I’m guessing it was sometime during that...
31 January 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
The fugitive dir. by Andrew Davies
Do you remember when it was a big deal when a film came on the telly? I can remember the hype around The Fugitive, not when it was in the cinema,...
5 November 2017
Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey
River of Teeth ; 2 The events of River of Teeth have left repercussions. Not least of which are the feral hippos! but also the Houndstooth outfit1 have been separated, those...
16 October 2017
Blade Runner 2049 dir. by Denis Villeneuve
Sequel to Blade Runner Set thirty years after the first Blade Runner, this film is not set in our future, but in an alternate future. One that is bleak and brutal...
15 October 2017
Blade Runner (The final cut) [based on the book] by Philip K. Dick dir. by Ridley Scott
I know that at some point in the past I have watched Blade Runner. I do not know what version it was. I also am very aware that it has become...
13 October 2017
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
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