Martin David is a mercenary sent undercover to Tasmania. His employers, Red Leaf, are a private military biotech firm who are seeking one of the last Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers. The legendary creature purportedly had a unique venom that paralyzed its prey and Red Leaf want that. Red Leaf are paying, which means Martin wants …
There are really three films in one in Mansome. The first is a collection of celebrity talking heads discussing masculinity and what it means to be a man who grooms in the 21st century. This is facilitated, and bookended, by producers Jason Bateman and Will Arnett who appear in the movie getting a variety of …
Welcome to Friday Film Club. This year, I’ll be watching a movie I’ve never seen before and that, in most cases, is outside my comfort zone, and talking about it here every week. There’s no internal prejudice here, no bias towards one genre over another, just you, me, the movie and the words. Activate the …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIJeQNyZ6VE] The Last Moments of Captain Karl Janek: Prometheus Karl Janek’s first thought as he watches the obscenity lift off in front of him is simple; I knew it. This job had been squirrely from the get go. Janek had considered himself a man of faith, you didn’t pilot long haul ships without it, …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5SK-P2h5o&w=560&h=315] FROM: Psychological Operations Department, Esoterics Subdivision TO: Control, Diogenes Club RE: The Quaid Imprint ABSTRACT That an agent or rogue agent can be turned by having their memory overwritten, placing them in a deep cover position where they will be close to a target or able to gather valuable counter-intelligence without ever knowing …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GlAhQtbNR0] I meet Frank Haskins in a pub in central London. It’s one he picked and the moment I step through the door I can see why. The walls are covered with pictures of Sherlock Holmes, London’s greatest detective in every single one of his guises. Basil Rathbone’s lightfooted near-swashbuckler, the precise, hawk nosed …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqgrUna28w] The Chief Judge sat on her perch and watched the city fall away beneath her. No one ever called the Chief Judge’s office the Perch, at least not officially, but that was the only name that made sense. At the top of the Hall of Justice, sat between the eyes of the Department’s …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI] Old spies don’t die they just go deeper under cover. He’d said that to her, his skin like paper, the oxygen mask capturing the words so he had to fight to push them out. She’d smiled and nodded, that precise, disciplined gesture that she only allowed herself when it was all she …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WQrLuaMBMw] (Usual rules apply; any name and title is clickable) I’ve loved movies since I was seven, and my Mum was a private care nurse for a very nice lady who lived about a quarter of a mile away. Some days, after she picked me up from school, she’d take me there and …