31.1.13

Margaret

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The personalities in this film don't cohere between scenes. What you get are fragments that, when gathered together, suggest a complete ...
27.1.13

A Taste of Chlorine

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The universe presented in this book is pretty much composed of the aquamarine of the swimming pool, in a similar way to A Waking Life being...
24.1.13

Tropic of Cancer

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I started reading Sexual Politics straight after finishing Tropic of Cancer , and immediately skipped forward to the chapter on Henry Mille...
20.1.13

The Big Lebowski

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Not sure if David Thompson's ambivalence about the Coens pre-2003 was shifted by No Country for Old Men and A Serious Man , both of whi...
15.1.13

Les Miserables

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Peter Bradshaw was beaten into submission , and after seeing the film this evening I understand where he's coming from – the intense sin...
13.1.13

Woman of the Dunes

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The 1965 review included in the DVD booklet suggests that the film presents "a set of sardonic and paradoxical glosses on the Marxist d...

Favourite songs of 2012 part 2

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My top ten: 10. Objekt - Cactus Spent relatively little time following the Hessle / Hemlock / R&S end of things this year (do things ...
12.1.13

Life of Pi

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I haven't read the book, because I have an aversion to fables featuring talking animals (maybe George Orwell is to blame). I watched the...
10.1.13

2012 blind spot: Jeremih - 773 Love

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This didn't (and won't) make it onto the rundown of my favourite songs of last year, having only discovered it when Jeremih started ...