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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 and [...]

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A life in the mind of Mike “Toilet” Engleby
9/10
Setting aside the fact that ‘Engleby‘ is a gripping psychological thriller of sorts, Sebastian Faulks’ new novel is also a brilliant meditation on the unreliability of memory, on the things lost by the fallability of the human mind. It also examines the unattainability or brevity of the [...]

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The best of the baddest
9/10
I am no Nick Cave afficianado but it seems the man is making a real come-back into the critical consciousness with his most recent album, ‘Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!‘. Of course, critical trends mean almost nothing, and if this excellent compliation tells us anything, it’s that Cave has been writing strange and [...]

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