The lowdown on film, books, television, music & happenings

By Staff writer

Movies:

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance, Croft embarks on a perilous journey to his last-known destination — a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. The stakes couldn’t be higher as Lara must rely on her sharp mind, blind faith and stubborn spirit to venture into the unknown and try and save her father.

Also starrring Dominic West, Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Wu the film is set to release on the 16th of March 2018.

TV Series:

Alias Grace

The six-part miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel is based on the true story of Irish immigrant servant in Canada named Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who in 1843 was convicted of murdering her employer (Paul Gross) and the housekeeper (Anna Paquin) with the help of a stable hand named James McDermott (Kerr Logan). Another must watch for true crime fans and historical drama lovers.

Books:

A LEGACY OF SPIES —by John Le Carré

In A Legacy of Spies, John Le Carré takes us from the present day back to the time and setting of his most famous book The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. He returns to the story of Smiley’s People with one of George Smiley’s trusted lieutenants, Peter Guillam, ordered back to London from his farm in Brittany and subjected to an inquisition by two bright young-ish things from MI6 – bureaucrats “Bunny” Butterfield, a legal adviser to the chief of MI6 and Laura, who tells Guillam that her job is to uncover the “history” of “Operation Windfall”— how it was mounted and led and where it went wrong. A masterful telling of a story that weaves back and forth through the Cold War past and the present and a must read for all Le Carré aficionados.

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