by Dave Bradley | Sep 29, 2017 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, M, 104 mins Bryan Cranston’s many starring roles since the end of TV’s Breaking Bad have included the serious (Get A Job, Trumbo) and not so serious (Why Him?, Power Rangers), but his performance here is easily one of his best, given that...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised tome is one of the key works of cinematic literature...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Peter Swanson (Faber) 2016, 333pp, RRP $29.99 Swanson’s knack for character-based psychodrama doesn’t desert him in this, his third novel after The Girl With A Clock For A Heart and The Kind Worth Killing, and even though this somewhat surprisingly (no spoilers...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 95 Mins Something of a lost classic , director Larry Peerce’s raw, uncomfortable drama must have seemed pretty confronting in 1967, and nowadays still feels tense, as his intriguing cast gets psychologically terrorised (and do some psychological terrorising...
