Hanna is an interesting new direction for director Joe Wright who is best known for making the period dramas Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.  Unlike those films, Hanna is a contemporary action film that moves at the same accelerated pace as that of its young heroine. Hanna lives in a remote snowy woodland location with her father Erik who rigorously ...

You can count me amongst the hoards of admirers of Idris Elba’s performance in the The Wire as crime lord Stringer Bell who found his portrayal of a Baltimore drug dealer so convincing that I had no idea he was actually British. It wasn’t until someone put me onto the BBC crime drama Luther that I got to see him ...

Some dude on the Internet spliced together the speech from Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator with the soundtrack from Inception to pretty good effect. Have a good weekend everyone.

JK Rowling had been teasing a website for the past few weeks called Pottermore.com which apparently would be her way of showing appreciation to fans of the series.  There was speculation over whether it would be new books, an encylopaedia, an online video game and so on.  Well it turns out its some sort of weird social network / online ...

The Killing In the pilot episode, The Killing came across as a smart, sharply written crime drama that had a similar look and feel to the popular Girl With A Dragon Tattoo series.  The show was based on a popular Danish cop drama although I’m not sure how true to the source material it is.  The concept of having a ...

DISTILLERY Suntory Yamazaki TYPE Single Malt ALCOHOL 43% REGION Shimamoto, Osaka COLOR Dark honey NOSE Sweet scent, honey and apricots. PALATE Modest and rather subtle.  Not as sweet as you’d expect.  It’s a mellow blend of grain, cinnamon and oak. FINISH Incredibly long aftertaste that is full bodied and warming.  Lingering taste of oak, dried fruit and salt. SCORE 90 ...

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Room is a prize winning novel from Canadian author Emma Donoghue.  Its a story told from the perspective of a five year old boy Jack who has lived in a single room all his life with his mother.  They are the hostages of ‘Old Nick’, who abducted Jack’s mother when she was a teenager and impregnated her. Donoghue was inspired ...

Trained professionals at work

To mark the occasion of the Matildas arriving in Germany for the Womens World Cup which starts on the 26th June, I thought I’d have a football themed video for the day.  This is a penalty shootout between Italian football clubs Termeno and Dro and involves a premature celebration from a goalkeeper.  It’s a rather incredible goal. Have a good ...