It’s slightlu hard to review a book that is, essentially, somebody’s life story. It’s difficult to dissect the truth or critique the story. A fictional narrative is easy, you can tear it apart, say which bits you liked, disliked, believed or found fanciful but with the truth that’s impossible. You have to ignore how the …
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Possession may be nine-tenths of the law but reputation carries more weight and it’s fair to say that the Kray twins have some reputation. The stories of the life they lead, the violence they commanded and the fear they instilled still as powerful, and as shocking, today as it was in the 1960s. They may …
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I wrote in my review of What Milo Saw by Virginia Macgregor that I follow a lot of writers on Twitter and, as a result, dip in and out of their literacy musings through the natural saturation of promotion they share. I spend so long flicking past tweets discussing, describing and advertising their books that …
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I have noticed over the last few years that films classification appears to be getting tamer. Movies that I would expect to be an 18 arrive bearing a 15 instead. Whether society is just becoming numb, more accepting or blind is another debate, but it’s obvious that in the digital world we now live in …
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I said in my review of American Ultra that I am naturally drawn to Jesse Eisenberg only to be constantly disappointed by the end result. The same is somewhat true with director Noah Baumbach. I will actively watch his films: The Squid & The Whale, Greenberg, While We’re Young, only to be left deflated by …
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I’ve never seen a Twilight film but I really like Kristen Stewart. Still Alice, Clouds of Sils Maria, On the Road and The Cake Eaters providing more than enough proof that her name alone will draw me to a film, even if I don’t always like the end product. Whilst my relationship with Jesse Eisenberg is …
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When it comes to social media I am a far greater fan of Twitter than I am of Facebook. I have always felt that Facebook is somehow egotistical. That’s it’s “friends” structure forces a culture of boasting and voyeurism, whereas, Twitter is about engagement. It’s about finding people: friends, strangers, companies or brands, and talking, …
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I had simply passed a tertiary glance towards Me and Earl and The Dying Girl and moved on. The name gives nothing away, the poster is minimalistic and judging a book by it’s cover, it appeared to be nothing more than a simple throwaway teenage rom-com, albeit set within a joyless subject. Cancer. Listening to …
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Even though it’s a documentary, Blackfish has been on my list of “movies” to watch virtually since it was released in 2013. Essentially focusing on the effects of keeping wild animals (in this case Orca Killer Whales) captive, Blackfish attempts to outline the psychological effects on the animals this imprisonment has, as well as, a …
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Hunger is the second novel in the “Gone” series by Michael Grant, following on from the series titling original. The book picks up on the lives of a group of school children who have been cut off from civilisation, turned against each other as the realisation of their plight and the natural power struggle it …
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