Category: Film
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Is Star Wars terrible?
Provocative isn’t it. A month ago I would have clicked on this blog post with venom in my mind and one singular thought: this dickhead is wrong. I’d have insisted that not understanding Star Wars is like not understanding the concept of love, or hating cheesecake, essentially the domain of cold-hearted psychopaths. But last week…
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Film Review: Justice League
Life is about the choices we make, the friends we stand by and the moments where we courageously follow our hearts and take a leap of faith. Which is, I should say, a long way round to saying I decided to go to the cinema and not the gym tonight. Let me answer your first…
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Review: Avengers Age Of Ultron
Oh Joss what have you done. It all started so well this super hero lark, there were films where things happened other than piles upon piles of CGI’d fight scenes, where characters would develop, grow up, learn, adapt and blossom. Do you remember the days, the rose-tinted days of old, when men were men, when…
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10 Things: To Watch On Netflix
I’ve been gradually working my way through Netflix to find the best programmes available. It’s an eclectic mix of comedy, drama and whimsy which I hope you enjoy. Safety Not Guaranteed We live in an inherently cynical world. Magic, fairies, time travel, crazy ideas and perhaps even surprised wonder seem increasingly suppressed. This beautiful film…
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Review: True Detective
Everyone has one, a present DVD they’ve been given, Christmas or perhaps a birthday, accompanied by the words “I saw this and I think you’ll love it”. You’ll look at it and think, “maybe, at some point”, when the diary is clear, when Netflix has been completed, when I’ve reached my goals, I’m somewhere and someone…
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Film Review: Birdman
Jean Claude Van Damme doesn’t feature in Birdman, but after watching this superb piece of contemporary film making I found myself pondering the old karate veteran. My knowledge of Van Damme’s films was, I’ll admit, limited. There was Last Action Hero, TimeCop and, the most influential film for me (thanks mostly to Kylie’s appearance) as a pubescent boy…
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Kitson and Kirk
This week has been pretty good so far. I say pretty good, I mean on the one hand I’ve enjoyed it, I’ve had some great experiences and seen some great work, but at the same time and perhaps paradoxically as a direct result of those very same great experiences I have felt an overwhelming sense…
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Film Review: Lincoln
Sometimes films inspire you, compel you to write about them. You exit the cinema, heart filled with joy, soul crying out for fulfillment and you know, you know from the deepest darkest place inside you, that you must tell as many people as possible about what you have just seen. Run to the top of…
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Film Review: The Guard
Sometimes as you get to the end of a long week at work, mentally exhausted, desperate to leave the reality of working life behind as you head into the weekend, tired of tension and stress you need to relax, sit back and laugh. I found myself at the end of a very long week in…
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Film Review: JCVD
Some actors are born great, some acquire greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. However for some the road is less easily trodden, they glimpse greatness, come crashing down, appear in Streetfighter the movie (alongside Kylie) before being seemingly cast away on the scrapheap of actors who we laugh at for their previous errors.…