I’ve decided to expand the blog a little to include a new ongoing feature called Recommends & Avoids (working title). I watch A LOT of film and I’ve started to get back into TV, theatre and books again. I’ve basically become an Arts junkie. My first and main love is film as you all see, … Continue reading
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British Life & British Strife in British Cinema
Is there a term to describe someone who seems to shy away from his or her’s own culture? What’s the word for that describes the opposite of xenophobic? I’m not trying to get philosophical or deep. I’m not going to come out with some big revelation. I’ve just realised that most, if not all, the … Continue reading
How I couldn’t care less about how wrong my Oscars predictions were (…but I do care. I care very much)
Well Ladies and Gentlemen, the Oscars have come and gone for another year and once again they have taken me on an emotional roller-coaster of anticipation and inevitable disappointment and profound confusion. I did say before that I was going to write-up the review of Oscar-nominated Lincoln before yesterday’s ceremony but I got too lazy … Continue reading
Here’s my attempt at a ‘I don’t care about the Oscars’ Summation (but I secretly care. I care very much)
The Oscars 2013 There’s a outward part of me that agrees with the general movie fan rhetoric that the Oscars don’t matter and at best they’re just an excuse to have an evening of drinks and ridicule and that’s all good. But there is an inner part of me that is a little reluctant to … Continue reading