Painfully. Dull. Great cast, terrible script, don’t waste your time – it’s a poor man’s The Squid and the Whale.

Good wing chun, shame about the Chinese nationalism hijacking Ip Man’s real story to rewrite history.

No heroes, no bad guys, with an unexpected history-rewriting ending. This is one of those books you might overlook for looking like a throwaway paperback, but despite the cheap writing, it’s a solid story that has an astonishing emotive ending. Recommended 100%

My favorite part as always with the graffiti scene, are the stories of close calls with police & gaining access to areas for painting. This book is all of that and more – excellent quality photographs, well over half the book is filled with quotes from the writers themselves, and there’s a whole history of the freight trains to boot. If you’ve read most of the standard books on the market about street art, graffiti et al and you’re looking for something a bit more meaty and value for money, pick this one up.

Once you hit the halfway point I would recommend taking a quick trip to Wikipedia to help yourself understand what the heck is going on. Aside from that confusion (which never really left me), Glamorama is well written and as dark as hell. Ellis will always be a writer worth reading.

Freaky as hell, compulsive reading. I could not put the book down as I approached the ending.

While the characters are by no means as lovable as the quotes on the book cover make them out to be, their racism in particular is just a matter of fact when it comes to history. As much as we would all like to believe that the Allied forces fought WWII with the emerging genocide in mind, plenty of people were unsympathetic and anti-semetic even AFTER the details of the concentration camp were revealed.

So this is an excellent publicised, easily accessible historical document. For example: they detail the post-war rationing excellently, and give us an otherwise unseen day to day insight into just how uncomfortable it was being British and at the behest of the rest of Europe/in debt to the US. Worth reading, worth bearing in mind as we look to the future.

Airport novel, badly written, but because there were no easily found spoilers on the internet, I just couldn’t stop reading to the end.

I absolutely loved this book! The stories weren’t too long, they are wonderfully written (or translated here, I guess) and made me laugh on occasion. Favorite stories… well, I love them all!

Jude Law overwhelmingly ruined this film. Poor understanding of Wong Kar Wai’s dialogue, he had either never seen one of the director’s previous films, or just fails at life. If you can get through the first half an hour or can just project a better actor into the role, this film is a little American gem.

But once you get to the real actors, now we’re talking. Rachel Weisz was made for this style of film, David Strathaim is strong in such a desperately sad role, and Natalie Portman walks the walk she always walks so well. Fabulous style, fabulous cinematography, My Blueberry Nights is wistful, dreamy and complicated.

Just get the hell past Jude Law. Ugh.