Author: Rob Williams
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Best Of British Biographies – Robbie Coltrane
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in BiographyIn 2006 the Loch Ness monster, Robert Burns, Sean Connery, Robert the Bruce, and William Wallace were placed as the top five in a poll of UK adults looking for the most famous Scot. The person who was placed sixth was Robbie Coltrane. I have only just finished a biographical piece following the death of…
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Best Of British Biographies – Angela Lansbury
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in BiographyLast night I heard the sad news of the passing of Angela Lansbury. As is my habit, I posted something along the lines of “Aww…Angela Lansbury has died” to my FaceBook page. Usually that just means a few people add a “Sad” react emoji and that’s about it. This time, though, there were comments along…
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Indie Short Review – Yard Kings
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I do like a short! I think we’ve all sat through a full length feature film and thought “well, that’s two hours I’ll never get back!” At least with a short film you haven’t wasted too much time. I also remember a time when a trip to the cinema included a short or two before…
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RunPee James Bond Hub
Let’s face it, the man’s an icon. Since the mid-fifties, when the original novel was written, James Bond has been the epitome of cool, class, and creepiness, depending on when you want to look at him. Over the years he’s spawned copycats, clones, and parodies. If you want to kill an hour or two, just…
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Deadpool 3 – What You Need To Know
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Deadpool is one of those areas of the greater Marvel Universe which is a blank to me. I’ve said elsewhere that I preferred Marvel comics over the DC ones. However, I stopped reading comics of any flavour back in the early seventies. As a result, I’d never heard of Deadpool before the film came out.…
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Casino Royale – 1967 vs 2006
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Two films forty years apart but based on the same source novel. It’s not Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, or even La Planète Des Singes but this story has a few twists in the story of getting it from paper to celluloid. It is Casino Royale: the first Bond novel written and, subject to debate,…
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Best Of British Biographies – Bill Nighy
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Ah, Bill Nighy. I’ve used phrases like chameleonic before but Bill Nighy is not quite that sort of actor. That doesn’t mean he isn’t versatile though. He has played a wide range of characters: a formerly addicted pop star, the minister for magic, a Regency gent, the embodiment of the oceanic abyss, a Victorian detective,…
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Slow Horses: Season 2 – What You Need To Know
Slow Horses debuted in April 2022 and I thought it was fantastic! Masses of talent, gripping story, suspense, humour…for me, it had it all. I guessed there’d be a second series but I was surprised that it was going to be in the same calendar year! Obviously a lot of other people must have thought…
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Indie Movie Review – Don’t F**k In The Woods 2 (2022)
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I’ll be honest that I was a bit worried sitting down to watch Don’t F* k In The Woods 2 as I hadn’t managed to see Don’t F *k In The Woods. Admittedly, that came out back in 2016 and before I had the opportunity to watch many independent releases. It turns out that I…
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Welcome to Middle Earth
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The 22nd of September is known as Hobbit Day. Why? Because that is the shared birthday of the two best known hobbits…Bilbo and Frodo Baggins; lead characters in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings respectively. If those names mean nothing to you then you may as well stop reading now! Middle Earth is…
