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Tag Archives: Film
Protest, racial politics and white guilt: reactions to Selma
If film really holds a mirror up to the world, then judging by this year’s awards season, our world is full of tormented white male intellectuals, grasping with fundamental ideas about talent and science and existence. Women exist as their … Continue reading
Shame – Review
So dominant has the hype been for Shame that part of me thought I knew what I was in for. But even if every review I devoured had indulged in laying bare each character and giving away the entire plot, there is … Continue reading
The Deep Blue Sea: can the issues stay afloat in the 21st century?
The Deep Blue Sea producer Sean O’Connor is the first to admit that his new film is difficult to relate to. “Some people will find it inaccessible”, he tells me when I meet him in the week following the film’s … Continue reading
Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights
Classic novels will soon be defined by the number of times they have been adapted onscreen. There have now been at least seven versions of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights for big or small screen, and each one of them different. … Continue reading
Page Eight – Review
Perhaps one of the reasons that Bill Nighy has become more prominent throughout the latter half of his career is the onset of his lined, wisened face that lends itself so well to his acting. He is without doubt one … Continue reading
“One Day” – Film Review
Anne Hathaway seems to have joined the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Rennée Zellweger in the race for glamorous Americans to play ordinary British women. And we all know how that gets on everybody’s nerves. I concur that Hathaway is … Continue reading
Blackstock Green House 22/04/2011
As it happens I haven’t a clue how long I am going to be in London for the coming few months (all dependent on finding a job). But to Londoners who are interested in film, culture, or indeed any free … Continue reading
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