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10 . Hounds of Love Putting a rugged twist on the serial-killer subgenre, Australian director Ben Young's stellar debut concerns a young girl in 1987 Perth named Vicki (Ashleigh Cumming) who, after another row with her mother about her parents' separation. is lured back to the home of a couple (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry) that, it turns out, has deviant plans for her. From an opening POV pan across a schoolyard populated by nubile teenage girls to the many shots in which Young's camera pulls back from closed façades, Hounds of Love conveys a chilling sense of unspeakable horrors being perpetrated just out of everyday view—thus lending the proceedings a faux-based-on-real-events grittiness and immediacy. As it slowly elucidates the parent-child issues plaguing both its captors and their captive, the film develops into a chilling portrait of male domination and female liberation, all while providing, at every turn, an almost unbearable amount of methodica...

Frank Sinatra Has A Cold And Other Essays, by Gay Talese It’s 1966, and a fading legend stands in the foggy gloom of a Beverly Hills bar, clouded by cigarette smoke and ego, nursing a drink and a common cold. From its beginning, Gay Talese’s profile of Old Blue Eyes is precise, elegant and endearing, without a whiff of press release plagiarism. This collection from the godfather of New Journalism is a bedside table fixture, to be returned to again and again. (Holly Bruce) ...

The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen Ever wanted to fall into a wealthy friend's life because it would simply solve everything ? In this Talented Mr . Ripley -esque thriller, you'll get transported to the remote and dazzling Greek island of Patmos where Europe's glitzy jet set cavort all summer long. When Ian Bledsoe flees New York after the death of his father, he reunites with his childhood best friend Charlie Konstantinou—who, Ian hopes, has riches to spare. Like most things that seem too good to be true, however, there ends up being a sinister twist that shatters his escapist fantasies. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Roy's first novel, The God of Small Things, set in her homeland of India, was published in 1997 and became a global sensation. It traced the lives of Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins whose lives are changed one fateful day in 1969. In her second novel, released 20 years later, Ro...