Tag: thriller
The Killers
The insurance business was never so dark and forties Hollywood cinema never so deeply psychological as this.
Gilda
A gorgeous Rita Hayworth totally owns this tight, noirish drama and you end up forgiving her for the silly happy ending.
Don’t Look Now
Has much in common with European cinema. Beautiful images and heavy symbolism but rather cold at its core.
Sea of Love
A streetwise city cop thriller that crawls familiar kerbs but more or less delivers the package.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Together (Tillsammans)
One of Moodysson’s lighter efforts: a warmhearted film for a cold winter’s night.
- Originally published: 14 Feb 2007 in Film
Enough already!
When Jade Goody goes off-message, isn’t it time to think about the price of celebrity?
- Originally published: 21 Jan 2007 in Editorial
Trier
Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2011 in Europe
Hardware store rudeness
Whilst passing through a hardware store a while ago, my boss noticed that all was not quite well at the stick-on letters rack display.
- Originally published: 20 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Bike Bash
Funny what you see when you’re driving home on a Sunday afternoon.
- Originally published: 25 Jul 2005 in Personalia
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.