… although maybe these all got impaled when they tried to get into the property at Easter
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Reading & watching- Vigil (Tom Edge 2021) 26 September 2021A death is investigated on board a British nuclear submarine. It's A Few Good Men with claustrophobia, and Suranne Jones instead of Tom Cruise. Martin Compston from Line of Duty makes an early appearance.
- Quarterly Essay 82: Exit Strategy (George Megalogenis 2021) 26 September 2021Subtitle 'Politic after the Pandemic', this starts out asking if, as with the Global Financial Crisis, Australia will dodge a bullet at first and then fail miserably in what comes next.
- Australian Poetry Journal Volume 10, Number 2 (Ed. Jacinta Le Plastrier 2021) 26 September 2021This looks like a gift for the poetry-curious: every poem is accompanied by a commentary by another poet or critic. So you get not only the poems but also someone else in conversation with them.
- Capital (Euros Lyn 2015) 26 September 2021Postcards are delivered to houses in an affluent London street with the message, 'We want what you have.' They are a maguffin around which a number of suburban dramas are played out. Toby Jones, Shabana Azmi and Gemma Jones shine in an excellent cast.
- Ammonite (Francis Lee 2020) 26 September 2021Kate Winslet is amazing as Mary Anning, the woman who unearthed many significant fossils at Lyme Regis in the 19th century. and Saoirse Ronan likewise as a woman suffering from depression whom she is lumbered with. A passionate love affair develops. Though I understand that the intense sex scene at the end of the movie was choreographed by Kate Winslet, an […]
- Vigil (Tom Edge 2021) 26 September 2021
