Perspectives

To Critique, Inform, Challenge and Entertain

Author: Daniel Stepniak

FILM REVIEWS

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Le Prénom (What’s in a Name)

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf we’re lucky, we are given the opportunity to see a film that is so cleverly scripted, naturally acted and seamlessly edited that it leaves us searching for superlatives. This is exactly how I...

OPINION

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ALARMED OR JUST GRUMPY?

Reading Time: 8 minutesWhy are we so alarmed by state of the world? Could it be that it’s simply because we’re growing older and grumpier? I certainly hope not, and prefer to think that it’s because the...

SMALL SCREEN REVIEWS

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Ozark Series 1 and 2.

Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Ozark’ is a television series about Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) a Chicago money launder for the second largest Mexican drug cartel, who incurs a debt to his employers and consequently almost pays with his...

SMALL SCREEN REVIEWS

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Marcella Series 1 and 2

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Emmy Award winning, dark, British police drama/thriller is a cut above similar British television series. It merges English actors and London setting with Scandinavian crime-noire. Fans of Scandinavian noir police dramas will not...

FILM REVIEWS

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Book Club

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a welcome surprise when a film turns out to be more than ‘harmless light entertainment’. And so it was when I offered to come along to a screening of Book Club. The storyline...

BOOK REVIEWS / Non-fiction

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‘Eggshell Skull’ Bri Lee

Reading Time: 3 minutes  In her book, ‘Eggshell Skull’, Bri Lee offers something of interest to readers with divergent interests.   Those fascinated by courtroom drama will undoubtedly find the book impossible to put down, as Bri...