Demob Happy

FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Voice of The Hive 7/10 A sombre flute, the clunking toll of a bell, a solemnly plucked acoustic guitar … cue medieval clichés: misty moats, drawbridges, hooded monks, damsels in distress. But hold on, it’s not Led Zeppelin IV … a shimmering drone, Mellotron, and suddenly all [...]

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Things to do In Bruges when you’re dead 7/10 Theatre director Martin McDonagh’s debut film is a memorably off-beat crime film based around two hitmen (played by Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson), sequestered to the Belgian city of Bruges by their foul-mouthed cockney mob boss (Ralph Fiennes). The first two thirds of ‘In Bruges‘ are loose [...]

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