Gone Baby Gone – A Review
I liked Ben Affleck’s directing in Argo and I loved the Town. I don’t think it’s a great choice for a director to also be… Read More »Gone Baby Gone – A Review
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Review: The Yellow Sea
I’m a fan of both Korean cinema and film noir, but I hadn’t seen the Yellow Sea, a Korean noir from 2010. This extended trip… Read More »Review: The Yellow Sea
Dispatches from South Korea
I’ve been in South Korea for just over a week, and have been honoured to have participated in my Korean family’s Lunar New Year (Sollal)… Read More »Dispatches from South Korea
Review of The Big Sleep
I’ve been going on and on about sword noir, and I’ve been referring a lot to film noir movies and sword & sorcery books. One thing I decided after re-watching the Maltese Falcon recently is that I wanted to read some of the hardboiled writers that inspired noir movies.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I haven’t been reading that much fiction recently. When I have been reading fiction, I haven’t been finishing it. When I have been finishing it, it has taken an exceptionally long time.
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