22 February 2019
Two Comedies from Channel 4. HOME is everything wrong with the British Media /Political zeitgeist. But DERRY is BRILLIANT!
HOME and DERRY: two comedies..both alike in release date, production / release dates..both available on Catch up.. Derry Girls speaks for itself. A warm, funny, real, historical portrait of Ireland in transition. Layered with pathos and dramatic implication. But it’s a laugh a second, too and just MOVES with...
03 December 2018
ROBIN HOOD! PETERLOO! FAHRENHEIT 11/9: What do These Films have in Common? And What Sets Them Apart? Political Cinema vs Cinematic Politics..
Three Movies. All Very Different. Or ARE they? Let’s Take a Closer Look.. How does one ‘do’ politics on film? I think George Clooney once put it nicely: ‘I want the audience to ask questions’. IE: You don’t answer anything; never dictate, didactically, the messages that an audience ought...
21 August 2018
GOODBYE, MR BOYLE! BOND 25 Director leaves the project. Creative Differences Cited. Where now for 007? BREAKING NEWS.
DANNY BOYLE IS OUT OF BOND 25. ‘SHOCKING, POSITIVELY SHOCKING’ ‘We’re not a COUNTRY CLUB, 007’. ‘No-one ever leaves the KGB‘ How does 007 get out of THIS one? What it might mean, moving forward..AGENT JAMES MURPHY CONSIDERS ALL OPTIONS.. I thought it was a spoof. A Russian...
13 August 2018
Boris Johnson set to play the baddie in Bond 25?
DR BO-JO? Is Britain’s former foreign secretary ready to do battle with 007? James Murphy investigates, undercover. Bond 25 gossip is starting to pour in. Yesterday it was that old chestnut about Idris playing 007. Tomorrow? Never Dies. But Today: it Looks like we have our new Bond baddie?...
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