This week started with a choice; go it alone or just go? I meet Steve at the railway station at 7.45 before every session and, because it’s me, I tend to be about five to ten minutes late. This week, I was five to ten minutes early, my gi and my water in my bag, …
Britt Reid is a millionaire, the son of the editor of The Daily Sentinel, one of Los Angeles’ last independent papers. For decades The Sentinel has stood for truth and integrity in a difficult and uncertain world, with Britt’s father the unflinching moral compass the paper the steered itself by. Britt Reid is a dreamer, …
January 18th 2010 I’ve been ill for the last four weeks, with something which if it wasn’t swine flu certainly knew where swine flu lived. It’s been hugely frustrating at times, because by nature, I’m pretty robust. I get ill maybe twice a year, get very ill once every decade or so and hopefully this …
Distance lies at the heart of the second Lisbeth Salander story. The wide open spaces, both urban and rural, of Sweden are used as a blank canvas for Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist and a surprisingly large cast of supporting characters to write their stories across, all of which, inevitbly, intersect with blood and violence, death …
Tron Legacy makes for a fascinating companion piece to Predators. Both films are delayed sequels to acknowledged cult classics, both films use the bones of their predecessors as a foundation and both films revel in advances in special effects technology. Crucially though, both films are not only very much a product of their time but …
“Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.” I’ve never really got on with Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. With the notable exception of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, both of which cleverly play …