The West Wing. Hands down, no contest. It’s the only show (to date) that I’ve watched when it aired, from first season to last (I admit, it took until midway through season one for me to start watching it, but I did watch enough of it) actually making time to watch it each week as [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reviews'
30 Days – Day #3: My Favourite Television
December 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: television · the west wing
30 Days – Day #2: My Favourite Film
December 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Well, this one is a little awkward, but only from the point of view of anyone who is reading back through the archives of my blog, because I talked about this film only two posts ago. It’s Pixar’s Up. I loved it. Simple, plain, uncynical, sense-of-wonder stuff that made me laugh and cry. Beautiful animation, [...]
Up
October 12th, 2009 1 Comment
I went to see Pixar’s new release, “Up” at the cinema on Friday night. II appreciate that my friends in other parts of the world will have seen it months ago, because Pixar are apparently the only studio left who like treating England like second class citizens when it comes to release dates, but there’s [...]
Bleeding For Your Art
April 21st, 2008 No Comments
Topic: Well, let’s be generous, and say I’m using a specific recent example to talk about controversial art. So, where is everybody on Aliza Shvarts, then? In case you’ve missed it, Ms Shvarts is an Art Student at Yale, and her latest piece includes blood from 9 months of self-induced miscarriages. Well, maybe. There was [...]
Starting In A Way With Kontroll
February 2nd, 2008 No Comments
Topic: The one film I’d like to watch again for the very first time, suggested by Alasdair Stuart. Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian film, about ticket collectors on the Budapest underground, directed by Nimród Antal, who you might recognise as the guy that directed the more recent (and more mainstream) Vacancy. Which I forgot to see. [...]
