Less Than Entranced
I know its almost sacreligious to criticise Danny Boyle after the Olympics – bit like daring to mention all the awful music Bowie released for the last fifteen years – but here goes…. I went to see...
View ArticleThatcher – The Last Word
Anti-Margaret Thatcher badge (Photo credit: dannybirchall) I think probably enough has been written about Thatcher since her death last week and I don’t want to waste more energy on her but I have been...
View ArticleReclaiming the F – word
Last week I joined the green ink brigade. I wrote to ITV and complained because their ‘Sport For All’ promo featured no women at all. They wrote back immediately explaining that they only featured...
View ArticleSyrian strikes and then what?
English: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria . Original background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I know I’ve previously blogged about history repeating but…what are we going to do in Syria? Has recent...
View ArticleEar Wax for the masses
Chrissie Hynde / The Pretenders – London (Photo credit: Chris Boland) Flicking between FM radio stations in the car and denied the digital option of 6 Music I decided to give Radio One a chance. I do...
View ArticleSochi should be the start
I believe that the freedom to express your sexual orientation is a human right that should be protected by the state. I also despise the conflation of paedophilia with homosexuality – it’s a deliberate...
View ArticleDoes the gender of a director matter? or Sex, Snakes and Serena!
There are still so few female film directors working with big budgets and big stars that I was interested to see the latest Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence movie, ‘Serena’, directed by Danish...
View ArticleWhiplash review – 107 minutes of willy waving
I am increasingly annoyed and disappointed by the lack of intelligence amongst mainstream film critics. They seem to judge films on technical merits alone and use no politics or theory to interrogate...
View ArticleThe Night Manager – (or Whoops There Goes My Knickers) review
Does your shopping list ever read; bread, potatoes, napalm, Uzis, Typhoon Eurofighter, RPG’s? No? You obviously aren’t ‘the worst man in the world’ as Dickie Roper (Hugh Laurie) is helpfully described...
View ArticleLa La Land – the hype and the hoopla
I feel obligated to write this review of La La Land after my highly uncomplimentary critique of Whiplash, Damien Chazelle’s previous film (adolescent, phallocentric and tortured sums it up!). So in a...
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