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Author: Rob Williams
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Best of British Biographies – Tom Hiddleston
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Thereโs an astronomical term known as the standard candle. This is an astronomical object that has a known absolute magnitude. By knowing this you can use it to compare with other objects and, therefore,ย work out how big and bright they are. For me, Tom Hiddleston is something of a standard candle in that weโre…
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Best Of British Biographies – Karen Gillan
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in BiographyElsewhere in this blog you will find me banging on about the talent coming out of the small but amazingly beautiful country of Wales. The thing is that something very similar can be said about Scotlandโฆwell, apart from the size that is. Scotland is nearly four times bigger than Wales and has nearly twice the…
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RunPee Pixar Hub
What is it about Pixar? I mean, we all love cartoons. We’ve all loved them from the days before we knew they were actually cartoons and not just a different part of reality. Kids loving cartoons is a given. Then, when we get older, there are cartoons specially made for grown ups. And that’s when…
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Rewatch Review – Toy Story 2
A couple of years later and along comes the inevitable sequel. But was Toy Story 2 so unavoidable? To be honest, there seemed to be some doubts amongst the powers that be at Disney. Initial plans were that Toy Story 2 was to be a straight to VHS releaseโฆit was the last millennium, after all,…
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Rewatch Review – Toy Story 3
And so we come to the conclusion of the Toy Story sagaโฆat least that was the plan at the time. Andy has grown up; heโs now seventeen and about to head to college. Obviously the toys are now accustomed to being neglected. The ones that remain are left in a cupboard but, with Andyโs imminent…
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Rewatch Review – Toy Story
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This is, ultimately, where it all began. Pixarโs first feature length computer animated film. I suppose a lot of people, nowadays, may wonder what all the fuss is about. Letโs be honest, as an animation, it was decades behind traditional techniques. I donโt want to make a big deal about it because Toy Story was…
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The Jurassic Park Films
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in HubAh, dinosaurs. What is it about them thatโs so fascinating? There canโt be many kids that donโt find them enthralling. A quick count of my grandchildren shows a 100% hit rate. Admittedly, thatโs quite a small sample but a quick look around most toy shops suggests to me that they wouldnโt carry so much dino-stuff…
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Indie Movie Review – The Nudels Of Nudeland
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Iโll be honestโฆI wasnโt sure what to expect from The Nudels Of Nudeland. The various bits of publicity blurb that Iโve seen say things like โA truly original storyโ and โA movie ahead of its timeโ but that wasnโt what I found. For a start, it wasnโt a โtruly original story.โ ย Iโm old enough to…
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I Feel The NeedโฆThe Need For Top Gun: Maverick
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Cast your mind back to 11th July 2019. You might have been thinking fondly of getting tickets for the following dayโs premiere of the longest awaited sequel. After all, Top Gun came out way back in 1986 so that made a thirty three year gap. It was set to be sandwiched between Spider-Man:Far From Home…
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Thirty Years Just Flies By – Strictly Ballroom – A Rewatch Review
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On 10th May 1992 a film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received a fifteen minute standing ovation. Then an agent from the Rank Organisation dashed in to snap up the UK film rights. It was the debut feature from a young Australian auteur who would go on to win awards for theatre,…