Hijack Created by George Kay & Jim Field Smith Written by George Kay Directed by Jim Field Smith & Mo Ali Starring Idris Elba Neil Maskell Eve Myles Christine Adams Max Beesley Archie Panjabi Ben Miles Kate Phillips Executive producers Idris Elba, George Kay, Jim Field Smith, Kris Thykier, Hakan Kousetta, Jamie Laurenson Production companies …
Jury Duty Peter Cawdron 289 pages, Kindle Edition First published May 28, 2021 Antarctica has always had a special fascination for me. I grew up with the tales of Shackleton and Amundsen, and followed the exploits of Peary. I watched all the nature specials on the place, including, of course, Attenborough’s. More recently I was …
Billy Summers Stephen King copyright 2021 Scribner, 527 pages I sometimes think of Stephen King as being the Al Hirschfeld of writers. With minimalist precision, with just a few strokes he can create a fully recognizable and unique character. It takes amazing skill to do that, and the results are so simple and effortless that …
Created by Bryan Elsley Kiss Me First Based on Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach Written by Bryan Elsley Directed by Misha Manson-Smith Starring Tallulah Haddon, Simona Brown, Matthew Beard, George Jovanovic, Freddie Stewart, Misha Butler, Haruka Abe, Samuel Bottomley Country of origin United Kingdom, Channel 4/Netflix Kiss Me First may just win the award …
Cari Mora Thomas Harris Copyright © Thomas Harris 2019 William Heinemann & Grand Central Publishing You read quickly through the first three chapters of Thomas Harris’ Cari Mora with a slight sense that, gripping and strange as the story begins, it’s a bit pedestrian, not quite on the level of Silence of the Lambs. Then …
I Am Mother Directed by Grant Sputore Produced by Timothy White & Kelvin Munro Screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green Starring Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, Rose Byrne & Hilary Swank Intelligent, contemplative science fiction movies are hard to come by. There was The Martian, although the ridiculous Earth-return sequence at the end did Matt Damon no …
Bird Box Directed by Susanne Bier Produced by Chris Morgan, Barbara Muschietti, Scott Stuber, Dylan Clark and Clayton Townsend Screenplay by Eric Heisserer Based on Bird Box by Josh Malerman Starring Sandra Bullock Trevante Rhodes John Malkovich Vivien Lyra Blair Julien Edwards Danielle Macdonald Lil Rel Howery Jacki Weaver Rosa Salazar Colson Baker BD Wong …
In Space, Nobody Can See You Colour Annihilation. 2018, Paramount, Netflix Written and directed by Alex Garland Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. I was about 40 minutes into watching Annihilation and realized I was starting to feel a deep sense of dread. These days, that …