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Wild Things – Film Review

September 17, 2022June 7, 2024yggdrasille

This enjoyably trashy and raunchy 1998 neo-noir thriller has more twists and turns than the Great Ocean Road.

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie – Book Review

September 13, 2022June 7, 2024yggdrasille

Another early Christie novel that I’ve never read before, this one is a fun and lighthearted romp about a slightly hapless but endearing young duo of amateur sleuths.

Extraordinary Attorney Woo – TV Review

September 8, 2022June 7, 2024yggdrasille

I haven’t followed a legal TV drama since the heydays of The Practice and Ally McBeal, but recently I got sucked into watching this endearing, warm-hearted K-drama about a rookie attorney with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Old – Film Review

September 1, 2022June 30, 2024yggdrasille

M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller about a nightmare holiday on a beach where you age a year every 30 minutes is as entertainingly preposterous as I was hoping for.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens – Book Review

August 30, 2022June 7, 2024yggdrasille

It seems that millions of people absolutely loved this book, but sadly I wasn’t one of them. Despite the strong start and some of the most exquisite descriptions of nature I’ve read, I finished it out of sense of obligation more than anything else.

Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie – Book Review

August 23, 2022September 12, 2022yggdrasille

Murder, stolen plans, locked room mystery and a menage a trois. Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases in what is by far the strongest and most re-readable collection of Christie’s short stories.

Cat Devouring a Bird by Pablo Picasso

August 16, 2022June 17, 2023yggdrasille

When I look at my cat I see a cute, cuddly, adorable creature. When birds and small mammals look at cats, they probably see something like this nightmarish vision from Picasso’s 1939 painting, likely inspired by the violence of the Spanish Civil War.

It seems that Picasso wasn’t a big fan of the pampered domestic fluff balls:

I hate pure-bred cats that purr on the pillow in the living room. I like feral cats that hunt birds, scamper around the streets like crazy, drag everything they get. They look at you with wild eyes ready to scratch your face.