Category: Media
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Big
The scale of the modern windmills up close demonstrated by the person at the foot of this one, taken at the Whitelee Windmill Farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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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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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…
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RED STATE
Cineworld Glasgow, 05.10.11 Those of us of the right age to have been a teenager in the 1990’s hold a certain soft spot for Kevin Smith. With the grainy, self-funded, low-budget Clerks (1994), Smith found a unique brand of humour that connected with a generation of film-goers crying out for smart, well written comedy that spoke about the world that…
Iain Kelly 