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Tag Archives: film review
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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No Time To Die? Well, How About Tomorrow? #cheese #cliche #jamesbond #filmreview
Warning: there are some plot spoilers, but nothing really big, and certainly nothing that gives the plot away (as you’ll understand if you read on) I was in Derbyshire with the parents of my daughter in law – we wondered … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, review
Tagged bond movie; no time to die; review, film review
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Looking Forwards, Looking… #cinema #TheFather
I can still remember my first trip to the cinema. The Astoria in Purley. A double bill of East of Eden and HG Wells’ First Men In The Moon. We only went because my brother wanted to, having read the … Continue reading
Wandering, Lost, Wondering #nomadsland #filmreview
Cinemas opened again this week. I have yet to brave my local, but I will. There’s something special about the lights dimming, the booming sound, the egregious crunch of the popcorn nazis two rows in front and the bemusing adverts … Continue reading
Groundhog Day… Again #filmreview
We’re not quite back to going to the cinema and I’m looking forward to it. I hope it’ll feel like I’ve not been away, just the usual rush because I always get there late, the interminable adverts that I hoped … Continue reading
Careless? #filmreview #Icarealot
At my 60th birthday my son said a few words. It was touching and a little chilling. ‘Dad,’ he said, ‘when you’re old and grey I will be there for you… but as soon as you start dribbling into the … Continue reading
What Is The Point? #films #politics #thetrielofthechicagoseven
Sadly one of many Christmas traditions that Auntie Rona Virus has consigned to the bin is the post Christmas day trip to the cinema. So it’s Netflix or nothing. No, that’s not true. While I indulged my latent passion for … Continue reading
Posted in Film, review
Tagged film review, review, sorkin, spielberg, the trial of the chicago seven, Tintin
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Neighbourliness Dressed Up As Wisdom #filmreview #abeautifuldayintheneighbourhood
Watching a recent film on my sofa with Dog’s muzzle leaving an embarrassing stain on my lap, I wondered if the mellowness of being in my safe space might change the way I see film. Make me softer, more forgiving? … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, review
Tagged a beautiful day in the neighbourhood, film, film review, Matthew Rhys, Mr Rogers, Tom Hanks
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