A ‘culturally rewarding’ experience
If I recall correctly, I have only been to the cinema three times in the last seven years. The last time was to see Michael Caine getting hassled by ‘feral youth’ blocking an underpass in Harry Brown....
View ArticleVisions of Ecstasy: End of the Last Taboo?
Blas for me, Blas for you, Blas for everybody in the room Eddie Izzard Until 1676 you could still be executed for blasphemy, but the offence came off the law books in 2008, opening the way for one of...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Descendants
It’s always nice to find a cultural oasis amid the plethora of remakes and formulaic junk pouring out of Hollywood but when the oasis is provided by writer/director Alexander Payne and the setting is...
View ArticleObscene Publications: Video, the press and moral panics. Part 1
Note: There is a great deal to be said on this subject, so I will be posting this article in weekly parts. Where available online, sources have been linked to in the text. Some links in this article...
View ArticleThe Englishman and His Past, Part One
Over the past fortnight a few friends and I have, more or less by accident, been travelling along the pathways George Orwell travelled in his Road to Wigan Pier of 1936. That is, the bleak industrial...
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