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Every new year it’s the same. Reams upon reams of resolutions – actually waking up in time for lectures, viewing your tutor’s ‘optional reading’ as just that, as opposed to a particularly offensive joke – the list is truly endless. But no more. This year I decided that there was only one resolution I needed […]
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There has always been a magic in Quentin Tarantino’s way with words. He has the gift of being able to write textured, beautiful dialogue that somehow sounds both earthily naturalistic and completely unlike anything you’ve ever heard anybody say. His newest film, The Hateful Eight, ought therefore to be the film that foregrounds and celebrates […]
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I’ll start with a disclaimer; I’ve always been a massive Sherlock fan. I loved the first series uncritically, the second almost as much, and while I thought the show became a bit too self-referential and pleased with itself in the last series, I was very much still on board the Sherlock train and had high […]
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It may be the most successful film of 2015, a critical and commercial triumph, but frankly there’s far too much hype not enough hyperdrive in JJ Abrams Episode VII. I find its lack of soul… disturbing. A deafening hush descended over us as the lights dimmed. Way back in the vacuous theatre behind me I […]
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Sometimes actors are criticised for playing the same character regardless of the role. Yet many of the most loved and most impersonated have made a career out of this. One only has to take a glance at Michael Caine’s long career, which included a performance on Parkinson where he delivered an impression of himself, to […]
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