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book
27 March 2025

Mickey7

Another book-film combo as part of the Something Strange book club. The film is currently out in cinemas so this time I got to the book after the fact.

film
25 March 2025

Marching Powder

“One for the lads”, but also “one fuelled mostly by spite”. Danny Dyer plays a coke addicted football hooligan who’s been given 6 weeks to sort his life out else face prison. He tries to rekindle the romance with his wife and build a relationship with his kid.

film
23 March 2025

Flow

As an open source software bore it’s a thrill seeing a film made with Blender, a brilliant 3D modelling program, win an Oscar. Better still, it was rendered without a massive server farm, instead using some of the built-in features of the software to give the film a magical and ethereal quality. What a fantastic way to work with what you’ve got.

film
22 March 2025

Black Bag

From the posters etc I actually thought this might be a John Le Carré film, the lead character is called ‘George’ after all, and he dresses like it’s the Cold War. Well it isn’t, but it might as well be, and it’s a wonderful take on the genre.

film
21 March 2025

Les Diaboliques

A violent and miserly man’s (Paul Meurisse) wife (Véra Clouzot) and mistress (Simone Signoret) plot to kill him and make it look like a suicide.

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