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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CXIX 5 hours, 39 minutes ago
Seen To the pictures on two drear January evenings to watch Nosferatu and Wolf Man. Whilst neither was especially scary, they both built up an atmosphere of dread. Handsome films to look at, too. Couple of […]
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Marwood commented on the post, FAO London cinema-goers 1 week, 5 days ago
Signed. I remember watching stuff like magnificent Big Wednesday there, but also some terrible movie about bee attacks that was lip synced live. It’s that kind of place. On a trip to the smoke last December […]
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CXVIII 1 month ago
Seen All of us Strangers It’s a story about storytelling, when a scriptwriter in his 30s revisits memories of his parents, who died when he was a child. A dreamy, ambiguous tale that picks away at themes of l […]
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Marwood commented on the post, Your reading year 2024 (not a poll!) 1 month, 2 weeks ago
You’re right – it’s a gem. Already looking forwards to a re-read. I’ve not read any other work by JL Carr, so thanks for the recommendation. I shall add to my wishlist.
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Marwood commented on the post, Your reading year 2024 (not a poll!) 1 month, 2 weeks ago
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes A strange, mysterious book where we follow a microbiologist from the depths of the oceans to the outer reaches of space. It’s a book that I find hard to summarise, including as i […]
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Marwood commented on the post, What you listening to? 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Minnie Riperton. I watched Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ at the weekend and Les Fleurs plays over the end credits…
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Marwood commented on the post, Crime Fiction, Anyone? 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I didn’t realise he was an author, I’ll keep an eye out. His films are very striking – with eye watering moments of violence mixed with periods of longueurs.
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Marwood commented on the post, Crime Fiction, Anyone? 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Here are a few recommendations. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes. Utterly gripping LA set noir. James Ellroy. The Black Dahlia was the first of his that I read – and it might still be my favourite. Like […]
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CVII 1 year ago
Read The Last King of California A boy witnesses a violent act committed by his father, following which the dad is sent to prison and the boy and his mother flee to Colorado. The novel commences as the boy, now […]
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CIV 1 year, 3 months ago
Cheers. I’ll keep an eye out
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CIV 1 year, 3 months ago
Never read her before. Do you have any recommendations for further reading?
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CIV 1 year, 3 months ago
I’ve not done one of these for a while, so I am taking the opportunity to share some highlights from the past few months. Saw Macbeth at The Globe. London’s Southbank on a sunny, Sunday afternoon. A pub lun […]
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CI 1 year, 6 months ago
Read North face of the heart by Delores Redondo It begins like a rebooted Red Dragon / Silence of the Lambs – a serial killer with a very specific MO, an empathetic agent in the behavioural science section of t […]
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Marwood commented on the post, What ya been playing lately? 1 year, 6 months ago
I’m still going old school with the PS3. Currently playing Wolfenstein – New World Order. It’s 1960, the Nazis won the war and you have to fight wave after wave of the buggers across multiple locations. Good, […]
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover C 1 year, 7 months ago
It is, like most gangster films, very blokey. But Helen Mirren more than holds her own opposite Hoskins. Bit like Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas (and testosterone heavy gangster flick)
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover C 1 year, 7 months ago
It’s been a while… Seen The Long Good Friday What a film – an astonishing Bob Hoskins plays London gangster Harold Shand who has, as the film starts, reached the top of the heap, and who is now looki […]
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Marwood commented on the post, You can play one song and one song only that demonstrates you have good taste. What do you play? 2 years, 6 months ago
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
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Marwood commented on the post, B-sides promoted to A-sides 2 years, 9 months ago
I only found that out a couple of days ago – and Lost of Music came out in, what, 1979?
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Marwood commented on the post, Bad Sex with The Nolans 2 years, 9 months ago
Good grief, I miss Rik.
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Marwood commented on the post, Blogger Takeover LXXXVI 2 years, 10 months ago
Just finished – amazing game. Really effective story telling with more than a couple of ‘oh no..’ moments that are usually reserved for books and movies.
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