Category: Entertainment
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BBC WRITERS ROOM – FAST AND FUNNY
I edited these selection of short comedy sketches for the BBC Fast and Funny initiative recently. Some of Scotland’s up and coming comedy talent got the chance to write a sketch and see it filmed and edited. Do have a look and a chuckle: BBC Writersroom – Fast and Funny
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BAD BRUCE WILLIS: The Forgivable Sins of LOOPER
Rian Johnson’s Looper is a good film, with touches of brilliance, but equally with a central dubious morality and the plot weaknesses inherent in any film that uses time travel as a central plot structure. The way that these central problems are addressed by Johnson, and how they interact with one another are essential to…
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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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DREDD 3D
Odeon Glasgow Quay, 18.09.12 Just when you thought you were about to read another diatribe against the use of 3D, let me start by making one claim in the gimmicky, pointless, annoying formats favour. In Dredd, a film-maker has finally found a use for 3D that actually impresses. That’s right, I said impresses. When the…
Iain Kelly 