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Gran Torino
Posted in film, Gran Torino on 18 November 2010

Don’t do film reviews. Blah blah blah blah.

However, I sat down laste on Saturday to watch this and I could not take my eyes of it. The depth of the acting from Clint Eastwood, the composition of each shot …

What I’m listening to….

Billy Bragg: Fight Songs
Alt J: An awesome wave
Tom Waits: Alice
Gungor: Ghosts upon the earth
The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You
The Lone Bellow: The Lone Bellow
Shack: Hms Fable
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Duke Special: Oh Pioneer
Hope and Social: All our dancing days
Eels: Souljacker

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The Bible (of course)
Ben Quash: Abiding
Sebastain Faulks: A fool’s alphabet
Unapologetic: Francis Spufford
How to be a bad Christian-Dave Tomlinson
Steve Hollinghurst- Mission Shaped Evangelism

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