the chosen : a sad, sombre tale
A sad story about love, loss, regret, guilt, a long strained marriage, what it takes to be a writer and the fluidity of time and memories. This is all blended in with a ghostly tale …
This excellently written …
16 May 2022
the innocents: guilty
Sadism not suspense. Ennui rather eerie. THE INNOCENTS is a wretched glacial paced examination of horrid children, an artsy fartsy wallow in callow, callous, telekinetic kids that is tedious and tasteless, trite and repetitive.
If drama is instruction …
operation mincemeat: most secret
Ian Fleming beavering away at his typewriter sets just the right tone for the beginning of the World War II espionage picture, OPERATION MINCEMEAT.
Fleming was one of the masterminds behind this bit of subterfuge that bluffed and counter bluffed …