Seen
Happy Death Day
Whilst this horror flick is wildly derivative (Groundhog Day meets teen slasher) it is also really entertaining. Helped no end by a witty script and Jessica Rothe, who is hugely charismatic […]

Thanks for pulling this together Dai. Good work, fella!

I’m very pleased that my #1 film sits proudly at the top of the pile (and that Withnail is in the top 20). I have seen Bladerunner numerous times, on n […]

I am more of a Marwood than a Deckard, but good as Mr McGann’s film is, I still think Bladerunner is an astonishing piece of work.

Wild at Heart. I remember watching this in London’s glittering West End when […]

Maybe take a look at Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Similar vibe to your recent read by the sound of it.

Also worth checking out Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Both thunderingly good […]

1 Bladerunner
2 Withnail & I
3 Toy Story 2
4 Wild at Heart
5 The Outlaw Josey Wales
6 Glengarry Glen Ross
7 Bull Durham
8 Goodfellas
9 Leave no trace
10 Arrival

Well that was difficult. If I look at […]

1. Seventh Tree = Goldfrapp
2. A grand don’t come for free – The Streets
3. The Rising – Bruce Springsteen
4. Settle – Disclosure
5 Simple Things – Zero 7
6. Lemonjelly.ky – Lemon Jelly
7. Version – Mark […]

The trilogy was on hard rotation on ITV 2 (or3 or 4) for years, and we’d often stumble across one of them when channel surfing. A nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

However it wasn’t until it was shown on […]

Read
GBH by Ted Lewis
Cold, sleazy, unsavoury. Which is pretty much all I want from a British crime novel, But I was disappointed by a limp finale.

The Last by Hanna Jameson
A post-apocalyptic murder mystery in […]

Thanks for recommendation, I’ve added to my wishlist.

Finished GBH and, as good as it is, I was more than a little disappointed.
!!! Spoiler ahoy!!!
One of my biggest bugbears in fiction is the first person narrator who ends up dead.

Art imitating life?

Reamde is the first Stephenson book I’ve read. It sat on my kindle for at least 2 years, biding its time. Well worth the wait, and well worth ploughing though 1,000ish pages.

I have looked through his back […]

I’m just coming to the end of GBH. It’s brilliant – in a grimy, nasty way.

If you’re looking for some other brit-noir / hard boiled you could take a look at the Nick Sharman books by Mark Timlin. I’ve read a […]

Let me know how you get on! Hope you enjoy it.

I do love a big, chunky book. Nothing like living and luxuriating in another world for hours on end…

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel is both scary and beautiful. Scary in that the end of civilisation is caused by a pandemic, beautiful in that the book goes on to explore the solace of art and culture for […]

Read
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
A 1,000-page door stop of a book, featuring Chinese hackers, Russian gangsters, British spies, and terrorists. Oh, and an online video game something like Warcraft. The story […]

I too was shocked at just how terrible he was.
He is supposed to be the great communicator, the classical scholar with a whiplash wit.
Instead, he appeared ill prepared, incoherent, confused, witless, tired and […]

1 Hats – The Blue Nile
2 Sign O the times – Prince
3 Loveless – My Bloody Valentine
4 Automatic for the People – REM
5 The Queen is Dead – The Smiths
6 Brotherhood – New Order
7 Joshua Tree – U2
8 Life’s a […]

Done.
Never written to a MP before – but this act of arrogance has made my blood boil.

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