Focus (2015)

Still in cinemas, I was able to catch a screening of Focus, a film that mixes crime, romance, drama and dark humour together to create a mildly entertaining movie, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and directed by Glen Ficarra and John Requa.

Pronto by Elmore Leonard (W&N)

With FX’s Justified reaching its final episode later this week, I thought I’d look back at the novel where it all started, Elmore Leonard’s Pronto, featuring the very first appearance by Cowboy Marshall Raylan Givens, as the first novel in a series of books featuring this character. This crime thriller is currently available to buy, with the edition that I read being published by W&N. 

The Walking Dead Season 3 (AMC)

I review the third season of AMC’s hit TV series The Walking Dead, starring Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohen, Steven Yeun, David Morrissey, Sarah Wayne Callies, Danai Gurira and more.

Jackie Brown (1997)

The most recent film to be reviewed for The Fictional Hangout is Jackie Brown, a Quentin Tarantino movie starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Robert DeNiro, Michael Bowen, Robert Forster and more.

The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)

The Burning Man is the twelfth novel in the Bryant & May crime series by Christopher Fowler. Published by Doubleday in the UK, it's currently available to buy, and can be read with or without knowledge of the previous eleven books in the series. 

Black Sails Season 2 (Starz)

I review the second season of Starz’s pirate drama, Black Sails, a prequel to the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, starring Toby Stephens, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Hannah New, Zack McGowan, Luke Arnold and more.

BREAKING NEWS: Quentin Tarantino To Direct Harry Potter Reboot!

News has come filtering through today that Quentin Tarantino’s next film following The Hateful Eight will be a reboot of the beloved young adult franchise Harry Potter series, as a spaghetti western, with the first film in the shared universe to be entitled Harry Potter Vol. 1, and to be released exactly 365 days from now.