actually, this is the weekend they didn't play golf.

James Dickey's novel - which John Boorman turned into a terrific movie - is separated into five chapters: Before, September 14th, September 15th, September 16th and After.

So if you've got a copy lying around, you might want to pick it up and read it "in sequence", as it were. Or you might not. Anyway, forewarned is forearmed.

Likewise, over the next few days I'll catch up on various outstanding and pending reviews:

Badlands
Eden Lake
The Banishment
Wall-E
Pineapple Express
Happy-Go-Lucky

Then next week I will finally get round to finishing off the coverage of the film-festivals in Lisbon and Edinburgh - stuff which has been in my "in-tray" for some months now. Mea culpa.

Neil Young
Thursday, 11th September, 2008