Archive for November, 2023
A review of the new film “Pain Hustlers”
November 8th, 2023 by Roger Darlington
A Netflix film starring Emily Blunt (“A Quiet Place”), Chris Evens (“Captain America”) and Andy Garcia (“Book Club”) has to be worth seeing, right? Well … The story is interesting enough: based on real events, it explains the role of key personnel at one of the pharmaceutical companies behind the opioid epidemic that has ravaged […]
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The next General Election …
November 7th, 2023 by Roger Darlington
will be held on Thursday, 7 November 2024 – a year today. Remember where you heard it first.
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Why we should spend more time talking to strangers
November 7th, 2023 by Roger Darlington
When I took my granddaughters for lunch in a restaurant and I asked the waitress where she was from, my eldest granddaughter said: “Granddad, you talk to everyone.” I guess she’s right. When my son was speaking at my 75th birthday event and the launch of my memoir, he joked that I wanted to know […]
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A review of the new David Fincher film “Killer”
November 6th, 2023 by Roger Darlington
Director David Fincher is the master of the thriller movie – think “Seven” or “Fight Club” or “Gone “Girl”. Here the tension begins with the jarring opening credits and never caeses for the next two taut hours. In his first screen role for four years, Michael Fassbender plays a superbly professional assassin – never named […]
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Is there intelligent life out there or are we alone in the universe?
November 5th, 2023 by Roger Darlington
If it is suggested that humankind is probably the only intelligent life in the universe, some people condemn this as an arrogant thought. But this is not a matter of attitude or emotion; it is a matter of science and probability. On the one hand, it seems impossible that humans can be alone in the […]
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