Cold Pursuit [based on book by] by Kim Fupz Aakeson dir. by Hans Petter Moland
This is not a good film. This, in fact, is a terrible film. Do not watch it. It is a revenge film, full of murder and violence, and yet part of...
22 February 2019
Outside the gates by Molly Gloss
I’ve loved every Molly Gloss book I’ve read since I first encountered her work in The hearts of horses back in 2014. She just has this wonderful way of writing a...
1 February 2019
Stan & Ollie dir. by Jon S. Baird
I know that I’ve watched some Laurel and Hardy films, they used to be on the telly around Christmas, but to be honest I really couldn’t tell you if they were...
25 January 2019
The poison belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Last year I read the first book in the Professor Challenger stories, The Lost World, where the land of the dinosaurs was discovered by Challenger and his team of explorers. A...
25 January 2019
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Doesn’t Christmas feel a long time ago, but that isn’t true, it was less than a month ago. In the leadup I started reading this collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories,...
20 January 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met at the beginning of the month I thought I’d give...
13 January 2019
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
The apostle dir. by Gareth Evans
Where to start with this film… Well, I guess with where it starts, with a man. Brooding, unhappy. With a past. And a missing sister he must rescue. As for where...
14 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
Venom dir. by Ruben Fleischer
I really wan’t expecting much from this, but it stars Tom Hardy, and so must be watched. And you know what, it wasn’t as bad as I had feared. I mean,...
6 October 2018
The cloud roads by Martha Wells
The Books of the Raksura ; 1 So after reading the wonderful murderbot books1 I wanted to read more by Wells. And this is the first book in the The Books...
11 July 2018
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