Black Rain
Last night I was watching a 1989 movie called Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott. The film tells the story of two tough New York cops (played by Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia) who are given the job of escorting a powerful Japanese gangster back to Osaka in order to hand him over to the Japanese authorities. However, the gangster escapes and the two cops are reluctantly forced to join forces with the Japanese police in order to locate the gangster. The film was okay. It was very stylish and visually it was absolutely stunning, however the storyline was kind of weak in places and Michael Douglas' character was just annoying.
I read a pretty creepy horror story called "The Children of Monte Rosa" by Reggie Oliver, which was set in Portugal in 1964 where an English family are on holiday and strike up an acquaintance with a sinister old couple of English ex-patriates who invite them back to their palatial mansion, however when the family's young son decides to explore the grounds he comes across some shocking secrets. It was a pretty good one.
I went out early this morning to meet my Mum in order to sort out a couple of things, and we went and had breakfast. I had some pancakes with maple syrup and a coffee. Then I went out and got an audio CD called Spine Chillers, which collected five short radio dramas based on ghost stories by M.R. James. M.R. James was a very well known English ghost story writer whose day job was as a professor of history and antiquities at Cambridge and Eton Universities. Apparently his habit was to throw parties where his friends and students would gather at his home and drink and he would tell them all his own ghost stories. It was only later that people encouraged him to write them down and sell them. Many of the stories revolve around timid, middle-aged academics who would sicover some kind of buried ancient secret only to find that they are invariably guarded by some kind of malevolent supernatural force. I also got a CD of the three part radio adaptation of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold based on the novel by John le Carre.
I read a pretty creepy horror story called "The Children of Monte Rosa" by Reggie Oliver, which was set in Portugal in 1964 where an English family are on holiday and strike up an acquaintance with a sinister old couple of English ex-patriates who invite them back to their palatial mansion, however when the family's young son decides to explore the grounds he comes across some shocking secrets. It was a pretty good one.
I went out early this morning to meet my Mum in order to sort out a couple of things, and we went and had breakfast. I had some pancakes with maple syrup and a coffee. Then I went out and got an audio CD called Spine Chillers, which collected five short radio dramas based on ghost stories by M.R. James. M.R. James was a very well known English ghost story writer whose day job was as a professor of history and antiquities at Cambridge and Eton Universities. Apparently his habit was to throw parties where his friends and students would gather at his home and drink and he would tell them all his own ghost stories. It was only later that people encouraged him to write them down and sell them. Many of the stories revolve around timid, middle-aged academics who would sicover some kind of buried ancient secret only to find that they are invariably guarded by some kind of malevolent supernatural force. I also got a CD of the three part radio adaptation of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold based on the novel by John le Carre.
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