It’s been a funny old year for cinema, and I’ve seen an awful lot of films. Still, a lot of them were absolute guff, so it was relatively easy to choose at least five that I’d happily put in a list of good films of 2009. I doubt I’m likely to see any more films […]
Cinema
Paranormal Activity
After much hype in the press, I finally went to see Paranormal Activity today. I’d heard mixed reviews in the UK, but I have to say that despite its tediously slow start, I actually enjoyed it. By the end of the film, I was aware that my heart was attempting to crawl up into my […]
Twilight – why vampires are rubbish.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a while, you’ll be thoroughly familiar with the Twilight phenomenon. I myself have never been the greatest fan of vampires, either in fiction or cinema, finding them to be far too…well…dull for my liking. It’s too easy to be a vampire. Good-looking, usually wealthy, strong, fast, blah […]
Beauty is truth, and truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
The title of this post comes from the final two lines of Ode on a Grecian Urn, written by John Keats in 1819. I’m not usually a fan of poetry, but I do have a soft spot for Keats. In my humble opinion, he was the greatest of the Romantic poets, and it’s a crying […]
Just why I love Pixar
I may have a fascination for zombies, a lifelong passion for Die Hard, and undying respect for Ripley, but in my heart of hearts, I simply adore Pixar. I’ve seen all of their films at the cinema, with the exception of The Incredibles, and the release of a new Pixar film fills me with the […]
Imagination
I finally saw The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus at the weekend, and as much as I’d like to discuss the film as a fantastical swansong for the much-missed (by me, at any rate) Heath Ledger, I’d much rather discuss the film in slightly more highbrow terms. Terry Gilliam presents the film as a meditation on […]
