Tweet For those without religious belief who gave their lives and those who mourn them. If There Is No Eden If there is no Eden no paradise to be where shall rest the solace that sets our grieving free No hymns of praise console us still less serried bands the pomp and circumstance of mourning […]
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Tweet Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood Don’t be put off. This superb film is not light, trite or funny as it’s silly title suggests. Rope Burns, its working title, would have been fine. More importantly: boxing is its context, not its subject. Even if you hate boxing, you can still enjoy this movie. And […]
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Tweet Match Point – Director Woody Allen A new movie genre – the Les Dawson movie. In order for Les to play the piano so hilariously badly he had to be a very skilled pianist capable of playing well when he so chose. Similarly Woody Allen with Match Point. But sadly it seems not only […]
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Tweet House Of Flying Daggers – Director Zhang Yimou In a film with some extraordinary martial arts action scenes, the most exciting sequence in this absorbing film is a dance: the ethereally beautiful Ziyi Zhang as blind heroine Mei, performs the Echo dance with an elegance, style and riveting tension, that matches anything in HOFD’s […]
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TweetAnd So My Son And so my son we have left the best and the worst to last You have asked me what I know of women and I wonder what to say How long have you got? for you will need nothing less than a lifetime and then some Of one thing I am […]
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Tweet Hitch – Director Andy Tennant Will Smith is like an olive. They say you have to eat 7 olives in a row to acquire a taste for them. Many will feel their lives will not be irreparably damaged if they don’t acquire a taste for Will. However, considered as an olive, this movie would […]
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Tweet The Black Dahlia – Brian de Palma De Palma makes heartless movies. He shows no warmth of feeling for character nor commitment to the logical demands of a convincing plot. Technique is the artifical engine that pumps life into his always skillful, sometimes suspenseful, but never for me, likeable movies. Dressed to Kill (1980) […]
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Tweet Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix – David Yates (written 2 weeks before Deathly Hallows was released – August 2007) Harry Skywalker lives to fight another day. My literary track record is stained with two failures: I failed both the Hobbit and Harry Potter even at GCSE level. Never even took ‘A’ […]
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Tweet Signs This is a new genre of movie – the paranoid film. It’s progenitor is Orson Welles’ controversial mock-realistic radio broadcast of War of the Worlds which notoriously provoked panic and had thousands of frightened, bewildered Americans running for cover. Signs has given its star Mel Gibson his best ever opening weekend at the […]
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Tweet‘I’ The I that thinks is an illusion the I that wills is not the I that’s not to blame because of childhood shame is just a victim’s lot In a movie I forget the frame In the world there is no frame to see I am my perspective the self that is selective the […]
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