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Oleksandr Usyk vs Dereck Chisora is an anomaly in modern boxing. The usual array of meaningless ‘championship’ belts, those trinkets seen...

A site dedicated to Snowdonia in northwest Wales just informed me ‘The Watkin Path starts nearest to sea level and so has more ascent...

Blake Snyder Beat Sheet Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Christopher Hampton Starring: John Malkovich / Glenn...

Blake Snyder Beat Sheet MIles Ahead (2015) Director: Don Cheadle Writer: Steven Baigelman / Don Cheadle / Steven J. Rivele / Christopher...

The Mad Max film franchise of the late 70s and early 80s brought a fresh-faced Mel Gibson to the role of Max, a lawman in a...

Sat on his stool between the fifth and sixth rounds, Dec Spelman appeared to be reconsidering his life choices. He’d just endured a...

I have always been cack-handed. In my family this has long been accepted as fact. The other day my mother saw a photo of me holding a...

Small Crimes (2017) Director: E.L Katz Writer: E.L. Katz & Macon Blair Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Robert Forster / Jacki Weaver /...

I hadn’t been on campus since the beginning of Lockdown. The crowds of oddly-dressed, smoking youths were gone, replaced by security...

The Railway Inn is an old pub in Oldbury that has been appropriated as a curry house. It sits next to a Quick-Fit garage opposite the...

Plot life is about to begin. The Woman and I were on a waiting list for almost a year. Yesterday we had our group induction. It was an...

I listen to True Crime podcasts. Casefile. Crimetown. Sword and Scale. Those Conspiracy Guys. Over the last year I have become...

Blake Snyder Beat Sheet The World’s End (2013) Director: Edgar Wright Writer: Edgar Wright / Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg / Nick Frost...

I spent the weekend like any other; drinking too much, walking around, and talking shite. On Sunday I cleaned the flat while in the...

What can I say about tonight’s fight that hasn’t already been trodden into the dirt? Not much. Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin will...

I fear the toilet book will soon be extinct. I am not yet in my fourth decade, yet I have witnessed the era in which computers jumped...

Blake Snyder Beat Sheet Tau (2018) Director: Federico D’Alessandro Writer: Noga Landau Starring: Maika Monroe / Ed Skrein / Gary Oldman...

A knockdown in the second round was all that truly separated Stipe Miocic from Daniel Cormier in their third and final fight. It was a...

“August 15, 2020, in Las Vegas Nevada, the UFC returns to Las Vegas as Stipe Miocic and Danier Cormier contest the UFC heavyweight...

The day ahead of me is unusually free. I realised as soon as I woke up and felt myself relax as if it were a Saturday morning on a school...