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A Rant About TAKEN
If I was to be topical, of course, this blog should be a review of the current Taken sequel taking vast amounts of box office money around the world, the imaginatively titled Taken 2. It’s not though, for one fundamental reason – I shan’t be going to see Taken 2 at the cinema. I may stumble…
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BRAVE
A film review with a bit of a difference: a letter, reprinted below, published in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine (November 2012 edition, edited slightly by the journal). I wrote them in response to a largely positive review from Thirza Wakefield, of Disney Pixar’s Brave. Whither Pixar? It’s not so much the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy
Joy, a photo by iainthekid on Flickr. A favourite photo from this summer’s Olympics, taken in the Olympic Park. It sums up the joy and happy atmosphere that surrounded the Games.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
The Riverfront, a photo by iainthekid on Flickr. This photo sums up a lot of things that I think of as ‘mine’ and define ‘me’. The British Film Institute cinema on the Southbank in London has a restaurant attached to it – ‘The Riverbank’. – Great atmosphere, people, culture, food and cinema, all in one…