google_ad_section_start This award-winning picture was directed by Tommy Lee Jones, his first work as director, and based on the book by Guillermo Arriaga, an Oscar-nominated author and play-writer. Arriaga also wrote script for Universal/Focus...

Set in England at the time of King Henry VIII and his dissolution of the monasteries, this murder mystery starts with the sending of lawyer and reformist Matthew Shardlake to a Benedictine monastery where the previous commissioner had been found...

Usual murder mystery fiction featuring psychologist Alex Delaware partnered with LAPD detective Milo Sturgis. Grand easy holiday read that raced along but the plot I shall probably have forgotten by vacation's end. #book #fiction

google_ad_section_start This latest summer comedy is directed by Ben Stiller - his first movie since Zoolander (2001), and is written by Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The plot : A big-budget war movie with star-actors is being...

google_ad_section_start Brendan Fraser returns to movie theaters for another adventure as intrepid explorer Rick O'Connell. The plot : Rick and Eve O'Connell spend the fortune they earned in the past two adventures in after-war...

I really enjoyed this novel, a total page turner that raced along. It's narrated by the ghost writer of the former British prime minister, who's brought in on the project after the sudden death of the first writer. The ex PM Adam Lang and his wife Ruth...

So Wimbledon was in progress, I was in my local bookshop and this novel caught my eye. Its the story of Willy, a low ranking tennis professional on the way up when we first encounter her. She's been playing tennis since aged four and is now...

google_ad_section_start Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) poster Director of the original 2004 Hellboy, as well as 3-Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth and Blade, Guillermo Del Toro has written and directed this sequel. The plot : Everything is...

google_ad_section_start Another warm, thought-provoking and wonderfully animated movie from Disney Pixar, written and directed by Andrew Stanton. The plot : In the not-so-far future humans trashed and polluted planet Earth and even space...

A completely by-the-numbers thriller which leaves you not guessing at all. How many "psycho kidnaps someone and forces people to do things to save them" movies can be made? Awful rubbish which wastes the talent of good actors. I won't waste too much...