It’s been a long month with many big life changes happening since this year’s BFI London Film Festival, but I couldn’t resist reporting back on what was a particularly successful festival. 60 years of bringing the best of world cinema to London masses, the Festival felt the need to go large or go home. And … Continue reading
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Eccentricity Is The Future – Blue Ruin
I’m writing this in semi-outrage. Every regular haunt I have frequented where I like to do my writing has been hijacked by a corporate event of some kind. Why can’t they have their office parties in the office like how I envisioned boring office parties to be and has been so effortlessly articulated in Peep Show. … Continue reading
New Feature…Recommends & Avoids
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
Zero Dark Thirty
As I had promised in what seems an age ago, here is my review of Zero Dark Thirty, a film that caused various emotional reactions from me. When I first saw the trailer, last year, it was so ambiguous that it peaked my interest. Then when I quickly learnt that is was directed by Hurt Locker’s Kathryn … Continue reading
Skyfall: The Ultimate Tribute to the James Bond Series?
I went to see Skyfall yesterday. I had tried to avoid it but I succumbed. I thought yesterday was as good a day as any. Perfect day actually because all the hype had died down and the country’s collective attention has turned to Les Miserables (a film that judging by the trailer I will not … Continue reading