I grew up in the west of Ireland and started writing from a young age. I like anything written by John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel García Márquez. The films of Kubrick, Tarkovsky, and Paul Thomas Anderson are my favourite, and I love a good horror movie.
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating."
Two criminals rob a bank and hold employees hostage, demanding 3M German marks, with the police unaware a criminal mastermind is monitoring their moves.
The early life of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate in the 1970s.
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove his grandfather wasn't insane, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.