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If It Bleeds (Stephen King) – book review

When reviewing a new Stephen King book, you can only really compare such rich work to that of his own.…

Midnight Family (Docplay) – movie review

In Midnight Family, the audience become front seat passengers riding along with the Ochoa family in Mexico City after dark.…

Amnesty (Aravind Adiga) – book review

  Booker Prize winning author Aravind Adiga takes on the issue of refugees and asylum seekers, focusing on Australia in…

Extraction (Netflix) – movie review

Chris Hemsworth throws off Thor's cape to become a different kind of super-hero (or perhaps anti-hero) in Extraction. This by-the-numbers…

After Life S2 (Netflix) – streaming review

Not to say that the character of Tony Johnson in this new season of After Life is now a loveable…

The Last Kingdom S4 (Netflix) – streaming review

It is hard to believe we are already up to Season Four of The Last Kingdom, which was an unexpected…

Seven Lies (Elizabeth Kay) – book review

The life-changing influence of platonic female relationships rarely gets covered in fiction, and for this alone Seven Lies deserves a…

On Chesil Beach – movie review

On Chesil Beach introduces elements of theatre into a period drama about the relationship between two sensitive high achievers. It's…

The Sound of Silence – movie review

One of the more buzzy features on the festival circuit last year was The Sound of Silence, the debut feature…

Elly (Maike Wetzel) – book review

Elly was once a sister to Ines, and a daughter to Judith and Hamid.  She lives on in the stories…