Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Apprentice Week 6 - Sralan…you`re fired!
I’m not kidding. In my view the most incompetent, inadequate person in this weeks’ show was Sir Alan Sugar himself considered as a leader specifying the aims and objectives of a task. I believe his behaviour towards the contestants is increasingly objectionable – gratuitously insulting and bordering on the [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Apprentice Week 5 – Parrots, Pirates and Pants
The penny finally drops: when deciding who to take into the boardroom, the losing team leader must ignore task performance, personal animosity one or two-way, disruptiveness, charmlessness and most especially the unshakable solipsistic egoism shared by all the apprentice Apprentices. No: the implacable rule is to [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
State of Play – Ken MacDonald
Question: you have a cleverly plotted, superbly crafted, well written movie with first class actors on top of their form: these ingredients are drawn together with assurance and style by an excellent Director and edited to a heart-beat - at times racing with the breakneck pace of events; at others [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Apprentice Week 4 – ‘Sh*t of the Show’ winner – with still 8 shows to go.
Yale Psychologist Stanley Milgram July 1961:
“I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Life is pain and joy. Never think you must earn your joy - for you will seldom deserve your pain. Both are gifts.
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Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Apprentice Week 3 - getting serious
Damn. It’s so much more fun to take the p*ss. OK there was the usual playground bully hubris from Ben “I’m the best looking man here” Clarke; and routine autocratic obscenity from Debra “I’m the f**cking Project Manager” Barr. James McQuillan’s verbal diarrhoea continues though thankfully we were spared [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Surveillance - Jennifer Chambers Lynch
A sick movie – in a sick genre. Do not be conned by the publicity for this sleazeball movie: it is not a thriller. It is a horror movie pretending to be a thriller. The essence of the horror movie for me is that the tension, the suspense, arises not from [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Apprentice week 2 – Basil-drizzling and James-dribbling
It’s Barbara Windsor’s fault. On Wossy’s show she said she’d been freaked out when she went round to dinner at Sralan’s place – which really has to be called ‘Sugarland’ – because he was a dead ringer, well ringer, for her late Carry On carrier-on, Sid James. That [...]
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