Molly’s Game (2017)
‘A Frat House for Degenerates’: Molly’s Game (2017) The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin was responsible for me breaking a promise some years ago. It was only a promise made to myself, but still. I had vowed that I was never going to turn into one of those guys who binge- watches and gorges out on box-sets. I don’t know; it just seems kind of disrespectful to take a carefully-prepared meal down in one huge gulp. Then I came across...
John Boyne – This House is Haunted (2013)
This House is Haunted I’m always on the look-out for a good modern-day ghost story; and that’s ‘ghost’ as opposed to ‘horror’, although if you want to mix in a bit of both, that’s all right with me. The last time I came across one was several months ago: Closing Time in Neil Gaiman’s 2006 collection, Fragile Things. I’m not a big fan of Gaiman’s longer pieces (I found it impossible to finish American Gods) but some of...
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