A good movie about a (real) doctor who made the NFL acknowledge that their players might be getting some very nasty cumulative brain damage.
read more'16 Blocks' - Movie Review
Mos Def annoys for the duration, and a gritty movie is badly paid off by an unbelievable ending.
read more'When Marnie Was There' - Movie Review
A middle-of-the-road Anime from Studio Ghibli that doesn't live up to their best output.
read more'Nothing Sacred' - Movie Review
A well-regarded but rather poor screwball comedy from 1937 about a newspaper reporter and a fake tear-jerker of a story.
read more'20 Feet From Stardom' - Movie Review
Just behind the stars of rock and roll, there are the supporting singers ... and now we have a good documentary film about them.
read more'Johnny and the Bomb' - Book Review
Johnny Maxwell either has a fantastic imagination or a very weird life. He's from 1996, but in this book, he visits his British hometwon during World War 2.
read more'American Ultra' - Movie Review
Funny for thirty minutes, violent verging on boring for an hour.
read more'The Last Stormlord' - Book Review
A weak 700 page "epic" fantasy, the start of a three book series I'll never finish.
read more'The Big Short' - Movie Review
A strange but entertaining hybrid of comedy-drama-educational about the 2008 housing market collapse.
read more'The Singing Revolution' - Movie Review
Under the 50 year rule of the USSR, the Estonians kept national pride alive by mass singing events.
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