Tag: crime
Death of the salesman
Among others of the press, venerable francophone newspaper Le Soir reported last week on the murder of Adrien-Denis Debouvrie, a well-known local businessman.
Debouvrie’s body was found “riddled with bullets” in an apartment on Brussels’ Rue des Bouchers, Le Soir exclaimed in rather lurid terms. Other sources claim that the 74 year-old restaurateur and sculptor of …
No Country For Old Men
Director: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
United States, 2007
It’s probably fair to say that the Coen brothers had been off their game for a few years. Since 2000’s O Brother Where Art Thou, we’ve had to swallow a lukewarm homage to film noir and a couple of flaccid big studio pictures. With No Country, the brothers are …
Memories of Murder
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Korea, 2003
Korean cinema is alive and kicking, emboldened and naive like a headstrong teenager with something to prove. One driver is undoubtedly a gutsy brew of high melodrama and truthful acting. Another might be that uniquely Korean gift for all things epic: simple, emotive storytelling with a keen directing wit.
Song Kang Ho …
Zodiac
Director: David Fincher
United States, 2007
The identity of the perpetrator of five serial murders claimed by the so-called “Zodiac” killer remains a mystery. Inevitably the case has preoccupied the popular media, most famously in the analogy drawn by the “Scorpio” plotline in Dirty Harry. Newspaper cartoonist turned super sleuth Robert Graysmith documents the real-life hunt for …
Proper ASBO
I heard on the radio about the latest figures for those of the nation’s youth in receipt of an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order for those of you who don’t read the panic papers).
Fancy a look at the wastrels in your area? Check them out.
They ought to get the old buffers at the Daily Mail in …
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Goodbye to RM!
Today is my last day at RM. Next week I’ll be back in Yorkshire after six years away. RM has been a good experience for me, my first in-house job to date, and I …
- Originally published: 13 Apr 2006 in Editorial
Double Indemnity
Director: Billy Wilder United States, 1944 In some life insurance policies, where the policyholder dies in untypical circumstances, the policy pays out double. It’s called double indemnity, and when old Mr Dietrichson gets bumped …
- Originally published: 7 Oct 2007 in Film
Rodrigo y Gabriela
The story goes that Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero played in a thrash metal band in their native Mexico. Presumably having failed to thrash the charts the band split, jettisoning our nimble-fingered …
- Originally published: 1 Dec 2008 in Concerts
Snatch
Director: Guy Ritchie United Kingdom, 2000 After Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels sold so well and Snatch showed that the grotty London gangster motif had mileage, Ritchie’s career seemed to go downhill fast. …
- Originally published: 20 Apr 2008 in Film
Barcelona
Jaume I of Aragó was one of Barcelona’s many notable figures. Descended from French and Byzantine nobility, his exotic origins were matched by an illustrious childhood spent in the thick of the …
- Originally published: 14 Jul 2009 in Europe
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