Waiting for a Quentin Tarantino interview where he not so obliquely takes credit for it.

"People" is misleading shorthand, we're talking more a tool-using ape. What modern eyes would recognise as a person didn't fully emerge until approx. 1997.

What about his excellent recurring roles on "Crossballs?"

Completely right. The original could well have been the rantings of a madman into a camera he's simply set up himself, a televisual "Diceman".

This isn't aimed at you, rather our milieu, but as someone who used to get third gen VHS copies of things he wanted to watch I find your comment hilarious and infuriating. Luxury is what you're living in.

If you like those, you'd probably like "A Horrible Way to Die" the writer and director's first film together. Well worth tracking down.

Just came across this interview, looks like you're right on the money about the influence.

I think we can draw a difference between colloquial usage and writing which sounds terrible and reads inelegantly.

This is exactly at what I was trying to get in another post on here. I find all his books to have that captivating distillation of research, but most of the time it's just used in the service of a rollicking yarn. With "Power of the Dog" (and I'm assuming this new novel) that talent is harnessed in an attempt to…

I haven't read any of the Neal Carey novels cause thought Winslow's real stuff started with "The Death and Life of Bobby Z" and the NC work would be the early stuff where he was still figuring out his style. As someone who is a fan, would you say the Carey novels are comparable to the later works and thus worth it?

I haven't read this latest, but I'd like to add my voice to the praise around "The Power of the Dog". I like Winslow's novels anyway, but that book is a step up from his usual material. Which material is excellent, but mostly just solid crime fiction, whereas this feels like him trying to make sense of the narcotics…

In this interview with the Guardian, Mendelsohn says that "Homegrown soaps are integral to the development of young local actors" so he might disagree with you.

Might just have to go rewatch the whole thing. Cheers.

Re: The Luddites. The Luddites operated first, and I believe, primarily in t'North so it would have been natural for them to align themselves with the Raven King.

JTHM appeared in "Carpe Noctem" magazine before the comic came out. That was the early 90s so he would have been in his late teens when he started.

And Grange Hill! Which Eddie Marsan was also in!

I agree with everything you've said.

I would recommend a German film called "Berlin Calling". Good film, top soundtrack.

But, but, Richard Herring is a character with only one joke. He's yet to tell that joke, but when he does I bet it's going to be tremendous.

I think mentioning Terry Thomas is very apt since, and I've only seen the trailer, JD is basically doing a TT impression, right? I mean, down to the gap in his teeth.