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How things changed in the noughties

December 31, 2009

The millennium proved not to be the end of the world, just the start of a very noughty decade.
Okay, let’s get this out of the way first. I know that technically and pedantically 2010 is the last year of the previous decade and not the first year of the next, but sometimes pedantic technicalities are [...]

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Moon: a film that’s well worth watching

December 19, 2009
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I stumbled across Moon by accident. It got no theatrical release anywhere near here, and I must have missed what publicity there was when it was released in the summer. It’s currently out on DVD and Blu-ray here in the UK and coming out next month elsewhere.
It is a great example of a sort of [...]

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Plotting the movie

November 2, 2009

It is amazing that anyone has put this much work into such things as movie narrative charts. But they are really well done.

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What seriously bad movies have you seen?

September 25, 2009

Claude Mariottini draws attention to the Chicago Tribune’s list of ten awful movies of the last decade. Tim Ricchuiti follows up with another longer list from Rotten Tomatoes.
I have (sort of) seen one movie from each of these lists. I say “sort of” because I was also browsing the web intermittently at the same time [...]

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I’m sorry, but America needs to get a brain

September 11, 2009

I am stunned tonight to learn that the film Creation (which I am really looking forward to seeing), has not yet got a US distributor. I’d like to thank this helpful review at the Panda’s Thumb for telling me that brain bending fact. I can see no other reason than a general fearfulness that mention [...]

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The Harry Potter prophecy game

July 22, 2009

I want to invite your predictions. Given that Warner Bros are going to make two films out of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where will they cut the book in two? My vote goes for Ron’s return and the destruction of the Horcrux that is Slytherin’s locket.

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Half-Blood Prince: full-blooded entertainment

July 19, 2009
Quidditch team at breakfast

Reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince seem quite mixed, although judging by last night’s crowd leaving the cinema, most ordinary Potter watchers seemed quite entranced. I have to say I find myself in two minds. On the one hand I felt engaged throughout and thoroughly entertained, on the other there were some things [...]

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Give the devil the benefit of law

July 6, 2009

Today the Church remembers St Thomas More (to say nothing of St John Fisher, an earlier example of how the Church of England dealt with rebellious and recalcitrant bishops of Rochester!)
Yes, I know that Robert Bolt’s play idealises More in ways that fit with contemporary rather than historical sensibilities, but here is a great scene [...]

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I am excited

July 2, 2009

Only two weeks to go for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince . It seems like we’ve been waiting ever. Of course, sod’s law means I’m too busy then to see it before the weekend.

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