The Blood Miracles
Book
Read our exclusive author interview Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his...
The Waiting Game: You Never Know Who's Watching ...
Book
DI Ellen Kelly is struggling through some difficult changes in her life. Her boss has left, replaced...
Trauma
Book
Bonnie's job - cleaning up after violent homicides - is not for the faint hearted. But for Bonnie...
Death Surge: A DI Andy Horton Marine Mystery Crime Novel
Book
A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing...
Down Among the Dead Men
Book
Down Among the Dead Men is a Manchester crime novel from bestselling crime writer, Kerry Wilkinson....
Well of the Winds: A D.C.I. Daley Thriller
Book
As the Second World War nears its end, a man is stabbed to death on the shoreline of Kinloch, in the...
Romeo Must Die (2000)
7.7
Rate It
Movie Watch
They've got the guns. They've got the posse. But they've got no chance when a street-fighting ex-cop...
Magnum Force (1973)
8.0
Rate It
Movie Watch
Magnum Force, which was released in 1973 as a sequel to Dirty Harry has Clint Eastwood reprise his...
Smokin' Aces (2007)
6.8
Rate It
Movie
Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a sleazy magician who...
Assassin's
Awix (3310 KP) rated Layer Cake (2004) in Movies
Oct 5, 2020
Looks a bit like a Guy Ritchie movie - and not without reason, for Matthew Vaughn produced the early Ritchie films - but the tone is (thankfully) more measured and serious. The plot is nothing very distinctive, although the subtext about Craig's character having to adopt the brutal methods of the people he encounters has some interest. Good performances from a strong cast; Michael Gambon is scary as a gang boss, but it's Daniel Craig's movie. This is apparently the performance that swung Bond for him, but the film deserves to be recognised on its own merits.