Based in London and pathetically obsessed with his VHS collection and stand-alone player, Richard Mellor finds torture porn a turn-off and wouldn't watch a war film even if Natalie Portman asked him with that mischievous grin of hers. Well, perhaps then, but otherwise no chance. He likes everything else from indie to Indian, and still cries at the end of Dirty Dancing (don't tell anyone).
By day he works in travel PR, and by night he ambles contentedly around the dodgier nooks of East London wearing dirty cardigans and grubby plimsols. He runs London-based music blog Someofitwastrue,
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State Of Play remains a cerebral, rather than physical, thriller.
An investigative reporter finds his loyalties conflicted when a story involving murder, blackmail and conspiracy centres on his old friend, now an up-and-coming Congressman.
