Movie Mondays – The Last Year of Darkness
China’s scale is as imposing as it is surprising. Most Westerners won’t have heard of the city of Chengdu, never mind be able to place it on a map. And…
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Movie Mondays – The Iron Claw
Do we control our own destinies? Movie Mondays features The Iron Claw, a biopic of the Von Erich professional wrestling clan, which explores brotherly love and the struggle to break…
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Book Club- ‘Stoner’
Seeing plenty of rave reviews piqued my interest in this novel and I went into John William’s ‘Stoner’ with high expectations and, suffice to say, it did not disappoint. This…
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Book Club – ‘Otherlands’
Book club reconvenes as Charlie shares a run down on Thomas Halliday’s blockbuster history tour Otherlands.
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Movie Mondays: Aftersun
Few movies do so much with so little as Aftersun. In the modern age of filmmaking where projects like Avatar 2 can cost a quarter of a billion dollars to…
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Movie Mondays – TraumaZone
There’s a prevailing trend in documentary making these days where the narrator becomes part of the story in a fusion of self-promotion and naked bias. Personally, I blame Super Size…
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Book Club – ‘Crash’
There are a lucky few books that make it to print, and fewer still that will outlive their authors as cultural milestones. Of this rare handful some will set out…
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Movie Mondays- Boiling Point
This week for Movie Mondays I thought I’d talk about a movie from last year that I missed when making the best of 2021 list. Despite having its official release…
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Movie Mondays- Paris, Texas
Sometimes it can feel like you’ve already watched most of the classics, or at least the ones that appeal to you most strongly. With such a rich back catalogue of…
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Book Club – ‘How Late It Was, How Late’
A comedy of errors without much to laugh about, 1994’s How Late It Was, How Late was a second-hand purchase of mine bought on a whim. It stuck out in…
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Movie Mondays: Best of 2021 Special
As we’re only just into a new year I thought I’d bring back Movie Mondays with a bit of a retrospective on the best movies of 2021. There are definitely…
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Movie Mondays – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The risk with making a romance film is that it doesn’t come across as authentic enough, or worse still it reaches so far into seriousness as to become a parody…
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Movie Mondays- Drive
Often, I get a feeling when it comes to a movie or album that I loved as a teenager that I should avoid revisiting it for fear that it doesn’t…
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Book Club – ‘Sapiens’
Sapiens by Israeli academic Yuval Noah Harari is a book that can make a rare claim to being a blockbuster read in a time when reading books is in sharp…
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Book Club- ‘The Disconnect’
It’s been too long since the last book club entry here on inertia, although I have been taking some time away from writing after experiencing severe burnout after finishing the…
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Movie Mondays – Sound of Metal
I am not joking here when I say this is one of the best movies to be released in the past ten years. Since watching it a couple of weeks…
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Movie Mondays – Under the Skin
I always find it a point of total fascination that watching a film or listening to an album can be experiences where your enjoyment of what you’re consuming is not…
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Movie Mondays – Lost in Translation
For me, Lost in Translation is as much a film as it is a mood. You’re never really whisked off your feet. You’re never really transported to a magical place.…
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Movie Mondays – Patrick
Following on from Ewan’s post last week I thought I would also review another film from Aberdeen’s beloved Belmont Filmhouse’s shiny new streaming service, this time 2019’s Patrick directed by…
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Movie Mondays – Possessor
For this instalment of Movie Mondays, I’ll be looking at a film from 2020 that I watched for the first time the other night. After initial apprehension at the horror…
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