The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: Film
Rye Smiling
There’s something comforting about taking in a film and realising you know every location intimately. Rye Lane is a comedy romance that is centred on Peckham, Brixton and Herne Hill. It’s a nicely put together piece that occasionally had me … Continue reading
Big Kid Time #filmreview
Do you have a favourite book or TV show or film that is the essence of film-flam, that doesn’t reflect the intellectual rigour with which you apply yourself to your cultural appreciation of all mediums? In short, is there something … Continue reading
Posted in Film, humour, miscellany, review
Tagged dungeons and dragons, film review, humour
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Living, Maybe #filmreview
There are certain actors who seem to play themselves. Sean Connery was a top exponent of being Sean Connery even if he was the same as a suave British agent in Bond and a rough hewn US-Irish beat cop in … Continue reading
Portending #filmreview #bansheesofinisherin
It’s been a while since we’ve been to the flix, or flicks, but we were drawn as much by the two lead actors, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell. A deep black comedy, so the blurby stuff said. That often means … Continue reading
Singing Whats? When the Crawdad Chorus Has Its Moment In The Sun #Film review
I almost didn’t go. The reviews were pretty meah. I’d not read the book, even though it had had strong reviews. Maybe it was one of those transitions to the screen that don’t work. And then the timing. The start … Continue reading
If You Are Lonely… #filmreview
… build a robot. That, at least was Brian’s solution in the newly released British Comedy, Brian and Charles. Why do we nationalise comedy? Are we so different, or just arrogant that our comedy is somehow better, more comedic than, … Continue reading
Week Nineteen: 2022
Theatre or cinema? Live or celluloid? I enjoy both but what separates one from the other is the quality of the enjoyment. And it might be the story, the acting, the setting or the company. And while I’ve been surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Film, gardening, miscellany, theatre, thought piece
Tagged 2022, Downton Abbey, film, theatre, thought piece
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Truth, Lies And The Stiffest Of Top Lips #filmreview #operationmincemeat
I’m never entirely sure who our favourite heroes are, when it comes to being British. After all most people seem to think the suavest of English heroes in one J Bond should be played by an unashamedly nationalistic Scot in … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, review, San Francisco
Tagged film review, operation mincemeat
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The Past Is A Foreign Country #Belfast #filmreview
I was too young to understand the explosion of civil violence in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s but not so young that it didn’t soon register. But it didn’t seem relevant to my little life in rural … Continue reading
Courting Ridicule #theduke #film
I often admire those who dig out the implausible stories from the recent past – recent being a relative concept and in my head refers to the period when I was alive – and then create a film from them … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, review
Tagged film review, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, the Duke
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