fredag 25 juni 2021

Pixar's Luca : more heartfelt than brainboxy (and all the better for it)

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What can I say about Pixar's latest film, which premiered a week back directly on Disney + (and without the annoying "premier acces...
onsdag 9 juni 2021

The Dig: Nice, old-fashioned costume drama (where not a lot happens)

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It's a measure of how long it's been since my head was really in the costume-drama game that my boss - no great admirer of period dr...
torsdag 27 maj 2021

The Return of Eurovision

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Some traditions are important, so it's time for me to write a Eurovision blog post once again. It's no more than this year's com...
onsdag 19 maj 2021

Rogues vs villains

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All right, so this is a bit of a cheat. I haven't written about Victorian fiction in simply ages (although surely adaptations and not-re...
torsdag 6 maj 2021

Am I not geeky enough for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - or too geeky?

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One thing audiobooks can be good for is when you want to try out those famous books you've always thought you ought to read but haven...
torsdag 22 april 2021

The irregular use of a great detective's name

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I didn't think it could be done, but the Netflix series The Irregulars  managed it. In the category "most spurious use of the Sherl...
torsdag 8 april 2021

Will Cruella get the Maleficent treatment? Probably not - but the film could still be really bad

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Depressingly enough, politics tend to seep into our appreciation of culture and popular entertainment a lot more than one would have thought...