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The Secret Agent (2025) Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrE9xdjYcZ/?igsh=MWdzYjR6bWk0M3U3YQ== This Brazilian crime comedy, from director Kleber Mendonça Filho, aroused my attention after its popular debut at the esteemed Cannes Film Festival , winning multiple awards, and then even more so after it received multiple Oscar nominations, including 'Best Picture' and 'Actor In A Leading Role' . Even with my anticipation for the film, I deliberately didn't look up much about the film, inste
Ridley Coote
17 hours ago2 min read
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Dir: Benedict Sanderson
It had been a little while since I had ventured to watch a true crime documentary, something I used to do all the time, but this Netflix original film, directed by Benedict Sanderson, tempted me in with its rather intriguing case. It also featured interview footage from the victim herself - something unfortunately all too rare with many of these kidnapping cases. Hearing first-hand accounts from those involved in and personally affected by the case was both fascinating and, a
Ridley Coote
18 hours ago2 min read
Orbital (2024) By Samantha Harvey
"The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife." I have been hoping to read Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner for some time now. My peers seemed to enjoy it, and I have always been partial to fictional novels that have space as a
Ridley Coote
2 days ago3 min read
His Last Bow (1917) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last." This eighth publication of Sherlock Holmes mysteries is a collection of several previously published stories from the iconic Arthur Conan Doyle, each taking place along the timeline of Holmes' investigative career. By now, I was well acquainted with the legendary private detective and his ever-loyal companion, and was prepared for the kind of mysteries and investigations that were in-st
Ridley Coote
2 days ago2 min read
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