Walter Matthau, man of action?

The series of ten Martin Beck novels written by Swedish husband and wife Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall between 1965 and 1975 are not entirely conventional mysteries. They are police procedurals which focus on the tedious sifting of facts and clues which may or may not lead anywhere, in which accident and coincidence often abruptly […]

Blasts from the past

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence (2014)

Five things that annoy me in movies …

Time, paradox and loss

Fall 2023 viewing, part two

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