Posted on October 2nd, 2011 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetStrictly Come Dancing (1) – Carry On Camping My schadenfreude honed to a fine edge from 14 weeks of The Apprentice, I looked forward to exploring its cutting tendencies on the usual mixed bag of Strictly celebrities. It is a pain in the butt therefore when the people you don’t like, or don’t think you like, do well […]
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Posted on September 11th, 2011 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet BBC Strictly Come Dancing 1 – Picking Partners Planet Orange re-enters our gravitational pull on its annual starry, sequinned visit to Earth. Fake Tan Futures buck the general bear market as industrial quantities of spray-on orange make the expanses of bare skin on the scantily-clad, impossibly fit professional dancers, look almost decent. Thankfully not […]
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Posted on July 18th, 2011 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Apprentice Final – Cometh the Hour – Cometh the Tom Suicide note in two words: ‘non-profit’ to Lord Sugar. Suicide note in one word: ‘Sugar’, without the Lord. Thus ‘in-it-to-win-it’ Jedi Jim Eastwood’s AMSMART battle plan, codeworded AMCREEP, went word-spinning out of orbit and was incinerated while trying to re-enter planet Sugar’s […]
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Posted on June 10th, 2011 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetWomen lie to men about sex; because they know men want them to.
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Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetThe Apprentice Episode 1 – the circus comes to town After she’s got over an ear-bending from the owners of The Dragons’ franchise elsewhere on the Beeb, for plagiarising their format, the Producer of the Apprentice must be spitting blood. Doesn’t the Good Lord! Sugarlump get it yet? We schadenfreudians, devoted, long-serving crew of the […]
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Posted on November 28th, 2010 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Bums authenticate. On seats that is. This 7th, of 8 film in the Potter franchise replicates at the box office the Potter phenomenon in the book business. Bums, large and small, male and female, child and adult are excitedly plonking onto the nation’s cinema seats […]
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Posted on September 4th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow Maybe my last war film: willingly seen. As a reviewer I guess I may need to go to future war movies: but I am weary of them. It has all been said. War is a hell that offers the ultimate challenge to a certain concept of courage – […]
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Posted on August 30th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Funny People – Judd Apatow Funny people are funny people: ha ha and peculiar respectively – like “war is war”, this is no tautology. Not even the ‘great artists must starve in a garret’ myth has more universal currency than the received wisdom in the public mind that ‘comics are depressives’, and ‘making people […]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Doubt – John Patrick Stanley God I hate this beautifully acted film. Seldom has so much talent been squandered on such a shallow, mealy-mouthed apologia for the Catholic Church’s shameful history of dealing with the long-term, life-destroying abuse of children by Catholic Priests. Even setting this morally muddled, spiritually vapid drama in 1964 when […]
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Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetI have never written any kind of speech; certainly not a political speech. The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency has captured the imagination of people around the world. Events in Iraq and Afghanistan, the profound challenges of Global warming and the current chaos in the world financial system demonstrate not only how increasingly […]
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