Writing this is the second thing that I have done since returning home from seeing 12 Years a Slave. The first was to make an enormous G&T with the flat tonic water. Desperate times, readers, desperate times. First of all, fuck you Quentin “I’m shutting your butt down” Tarantino, this is how you talk about […]
February 27, 2012
It’s Oscar season. How do we know? Not only are there the huge self-congratulatory wank-fests (because that’s essentially what awards shows are after all) but also because actors are releasing films with PERFORMANCES. And yes, that does need capitalisation. Films like The Artist, Hugo, The Iron Lady, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are all about […]
February 13, 2012
Sherlock is one of the latest of these appropriation experiments. Leave it to the BBC to take every piece of cherished literature and tart it up for the techno-savvy masses (forever scrambling to remain relevant). Thankfully, Sherlock is the complete opposite of a disaster, which one might infer it to be considering the rather dated […]
February 10, 2014
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