The Will Trent series
Summer beach time lends itself to a great read and Karin Slaughter's crime series featuring quirky Detective Will Trent are an excellent accompaniment to long summer days.
F1
One of the most exhilarating films I've seen this year, F1 really is an edge-of-your-seat kind of film. Given the subject matter, I suppose having 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton as a producer helps.
Black Doves
A beautiful look at covert operations in London where nothing is as it seems. The writers did a great job of blending personal issues with high-octane action to come up with a single story line.
A Death in Malta
Part memoir, part investigative research, this harrowing memoir follows the life and death of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated in 2017. Written by one of her sons, the dichotomy of a sun-kissed Mediterranean life and the horrors to be found cannot be more pronounced.
Karate Kid: Legends
Fans of the 80s Karate Kid films will have binged the Netflix Cobra Kai series by now. This latest addition to the story has heart and is a throwback to the feel-good-factor of those 80s movies.
The Perfect Couple
An excellent performance by Nicole Kidman as a family matriarch, trying to hold things together during a murder investigation. I just don't get America's fascination with synchronised dancing.
An Officer and a Spy
France's Dreyfus affair was the scandal of the century in 19th century France. Robert Harris' detailed research brings the story to life, fictionalising part of it but leaving all the critical details intact.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
The latest - and last - instalment from this 30-year franchise is on the silver screen. While I'd have liked a shorter first act, and while I ignored the techie-mumbo-jumbo, the film is a glorious combination of death-defying stunts.
Bad Sisters (Season 2)
How do the Garvey sisters get into such convoluted trouble? The real question is: how will they untangle themselves from it? Ireland has never looked so morbid and so scenic at the same time.
Predictably Irrational
We like to think we're all rational people, but we're not. Ariely explains how you can understand how - and when - you'll be irrational. It's a phenomenal way to understand the people around you.