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Kick-Ass…WTF?
Kick-Ass is the 2010 movie based on the comic book of the same name created by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. It is not a kids’ movie. No sireee! Any movie that has an eleven-year-old actress using...
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Tony Curtis, Persuader
I was sad to hear that Tony Curtis died today. Aged 85, Curtis put in a good innings, enjoying movie roles and wives with equal aplomb. Oscar-nominated for The Defiant Ones (in which he starred...
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On This Day…5 October
The Ryder Cup has come back to Europe, and on the morning after the night before, I wish Colin Montgomery’s team of twelve good men and true a happy hangover. In all fairness the tournament could have...
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I’m a Writer, Damn it!
Okay, the fun’s over, people. There’s work to be done here. No laughing at the back, you hear me? I’ll not have any messing while I give this little talk to you all. I’ve been sick, all right? Not as …...
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Jack Reacher: Literary Action Hero Supreme
Extract from Worth Dying For (2010) Reacher said, “Pop quiz, guys. You spent four years in college learning how to play a game. I spent thirteen years in the army learning how to kill people. So how...
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100 Words, 100 Days: Day 64. On Spy Stories.
With the release of the movie version of John Le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the return of Spooks to the BBC (its 10th and final season), there is, for me, a renaissance of the spy thriller....
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100 Words, 100 Days: Day 72. On Smiley.
No, not the emoticon but the character: John Le Carre’s famous spymaster, George Smiley. Coming out of a screening of the recent adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I thought about fictional...
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100 Words, 100 Days: Day 83. On Neighbours.
While I was in London this weekend, I stayed in The Belgravia Hotel (more like a guest house, but there you go) on Ebury Street, about ten minutes walk from Buckingham Palace. I took a bus tour of the...
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The Daily Whatever: On James Bond and ‘Skyfall’.
So now we know. After three years of negotiation, the 23rd installment of the longest film series in history is now in production. The “will-they-won’t-they” confusion is at an end, and by this time...
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A Portrait of The Artist as an ex-Catholic…among other things.
So we have a new pope. Well, it’s about bleedin’ time, if you ask me. There should be no such thing as a job for life – not in this day and age, anyway. Either you’re up for the task, … Continue reading →
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During my extended hiatus from blogging, one thing I didn’t stop doing was reading. I read a lot from about mid-February onwards (the reasons for doing so I laid out in the previous blog). While many...
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