The Poet: A dark psychological journey
The Poet by Michael Connelly is the fifth book in the Boschverse and much more of a dark psychological journey than the series up to this point. It is the first story not [...]
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Void Moon – the story of Cassie Black
Void Moon is the story of reformed casino robber Cassie Black. It's a self-contained story that sits on the edge of Michael Connelly's Boschverse. [...]
Hitman’s Bodyguard review – Guns, nuns and mother-f***ers
Great men make great contributions to society. Often cinema takes the responsibility for lauding that greatness, at some stage, in some cloying historically inaccurate [...]
Atomic Blonde review
When you think of Cold War spy movies, then the default location that occurs is Berlin. Berlin, a city that must have been sensory overload of a city during that post 1945 [...]
Alien Covenant review
Halfway through Alien Covenant Mrs L dug her finger nails into my right arm. Was this due to the visceral, splatter-fest gore of exploding spinal columns? Actually, despite [...]
Arrival review – a solid slab of sci-fi
November brings a solid slab of sci-fi with Arrival I was skimming over the memories section of Facebook this morning and the first article up was a review I wrote of [...]
SPECTRE review
All the hype, a strong cast, a budget that seemed to be continually rising AND the promise of the return of an old villain… SPECTRE should, on paper, be the biggest and [...]
Crimson Peak review
Crimson Peak is the latest offering from the gothic palate of Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth and a whole heap of other unhinged visual treats…) Mrs [...]
The Intern review
What happens when you get bored with retirement? According to The Intern, starring Anne Hathaway and Robert DeNiro, you suit up and go to work for free in an e-commerce [...]
The Martian review
Do you remember when you used to go to gigs, get drunk and then, due to situations beyond your control, you ended up missing the last bus/train/ having no money for a cab and [...]