Author: Rob Williams
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Indie Movie Review – Piper
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As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, if you have a good story then you don’t just use it once! Whereas A Christmas Carol came from a novella written in 1843’s London, the story behind Piper dates back to the Middle Ages and from Hamelin, Germany when it was originally known as Der Rattenfänger von Hameln. In this…
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Best Of British Biographies – Tilda Swinton
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in BiographyAh, Tilda Swinton! Where does one begin when talking about such a skilled and versatile actor? An actor who is simultaneously androgynous and feminine while epitomising the essence of enigmatic, ethereal, and mystical beings from any mythology or religion you care to mention. She can be otherworldly in one project and totally down to earth…
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Movie Review – Gran Turismo
It’s not often that I get to review the new releases but the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike has managed to prevent Gran Turismo being released in the USA for a couple of weeks. There were, apparently, some sneak previews across the pond but not the full release that was planned. It opened here last Friday so…
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1998 – It Was A Very Good Year
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Ah 1998, what a year! Google was founded. Andrew Wakefield published his heavily manipulated study findings in The Lancet which lead to the whole Anti-Vax movement donning their tin foil helmets. The Good Friday Agreement brought relative peace to Northern Ireland. The International Space Station became international when the Unity and Zarya modules connected. The…
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Best Of British Biographies – Ruth Wilson
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in BiographyThe beauty of being the one who chooses which articles I write is, quite simply, I get to choose and I choose the people I like. I chose Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan because I like their films. I chose Roger Allam because I love his voice. Bill Nighy is like your favourite uncle. Miriam…
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Coming Soon To A Screen Near YOU!!!
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Ever wanted to see your name up in lights? How about seeing them in the credits? I was idling through Twitter or X or whatever it is called nowadays, and came across a tweet from Matthew Butler-Hart. He was saying that a Kickstarter was being organised to get his latest film onto a screen…
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Documentary Review – Squaring The Circle
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I suppose you have to be of a certain type. You have to be of a certain age, a certain background, and have certain tastes. I saw that there was a showing of a documentary called Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) and immediately thought “Oooh…that sounds interesting!” I mentioned it to my long…
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Barbenheimer!
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in BlockbusterIt’s not unheard of for two big films to be released in the same week. That usually boils down to being released on the same day. The Exorcist & The Sting, Die Hard & A Fish Called Wanda, The Matrix & Ten Things I Hate About You, and The Dark Knight & Mamma Mia are…
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Movie Review – Oppenheimer
I think it’s fair to say that Christopher Nolan is in the same category as Steven Spielberg, Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, and Luc Besson…directors who can “open” a film. It’s the sort of club that Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Akira Kurosawa would have been in were they still with us today. Oh,…
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This Year, In Hall H…
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in Movie NewsAh, as Dirk Gently once put it, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. The old “a butterfly breaks wind in Tahiti and that leads to an earthquake in Upton Snodsbury” thing. Well, entomological flatulence affecting the geomorphology of a Worcester village may be pushing it a bit too far but I’ve never been scared of…
