Tag: murder
Grotesque
Kirino’s painful critique of the enormous pressure put on Japanese youth to conform and succeed needs no advertisements.
Death of the salesman
A Brussels businessman’s murder highlights the Capital of Europe’s seedier side.
No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers are back on form with this grim, sharply written movie featuring an terrifyingly unfathomable Javier Bardem.
Zodiac
Overlong and slightly overambitious but a welcome return for Fincher and a careermaker for Ruffalo.
The Apostle
How many actors can play winsome and sinister in equal parts? Robert Duvall can. And he can direct it for you too!
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Orval
3/5. Dark and fizzy, unexpectedly light and bitter. Flavours include grass, orange peel and grapefruit.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
Blame it on the Bellboy
If there’s any proper comedy in this film, I must be Venetian blind.
- Originally published: 19 Apr 2007 in Film
Ma Mère
Director: Christophe Honoré France, 2004 Pierre has too much time on his hands. He’s a sullen, truculent, overweaned, morbid youth who spends his inordinate amount of spare time writing miserable prose and pulling faces at his elders. Ma Mère is all about Pierre and it’s as indolent, ignorant and insolent as he is. Based on …
- Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film
Cayo
Cayo is Belize’s westernmost district and borders Guatemala. The district capital is San Ignacio: a great base for exploring Mayan sites and the rainforest.
- Originally published: 29 Dec 2011 in Belize
Linz
The old city of Linz has seen a lot over the centuries. Today it balances long tradition with new civic developments.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Europe
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.