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Shoppinghour Issue 7
In an age of cuts and rioting somehow distinguishable from other ages of rioting and cuts, it’s always good to find bohemianism is still alive and well, and paying £4.30 for a bottle of beer. Is Dalston a particularly trendy … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Popular Culture, Review
Tagged Cafe Oto, Dalston, Elise Boularan, Florian Lunaire, Hejira, Jovita Berlin, kettling, Naomi Kashiwagi, rights, Schopenhauer, Shoppinghour, Stik
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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Brothers Andy (Phillip Seymor Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) Hanson have money trouble. The company where Andy works faces an upcoming audit, threatening to reveal the systematic embezzlement of funds that fuel his drug habit. Hank is behind on payments … Continue reading
Prelude To A Kiss (1992)
“The world is a really terrible place. It’s too…..precarious” Based on the 1988 play by Craig Lucas and directed by Norman René, it tells the story of a straight-laced publishing employee Peter Hoskins (Alec Baldwin) who falls in love with … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, fantasy, Film, Navel Gazing, Popular Culture, Review, Uncategorized
Tagged 1992, Alec Baldwin, Craig Lucas, Kathy Bates, Meg Ryan, Ned Beatty, Norman René, Patty Duke, Prelude To A Kiss, Stanley Tucci, Sydney Walker
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Near Dark (1987)
Before vindicating her career with the success of 2009′s The Hurt Locker (and further capitalising with the rather ominous-sounding Untitled Osama Bin Laden Project), director Kathryn Bigalow was perhaps best known for marrying James Cameron and, somewhat more charitably, the … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Film, Horror, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction, Vampires
Tagged Adam Greenberg, Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton, blu-ray, Diamondback, Hooker, James Cameron, Jenette Goldstein, Jenny Wright, Kathryn Bigalow, Lance Henriksen, Near Dark, Severen, True Blood, Twilight, Vampire
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Super 8 (2011)
It’s the summer of 1979. In a suitably sleepy Ohio suburb, a group of school-kids that include our recently-bereaved protagonist Joe (Joel Courtney), form an amateur film crew and set out to work on a zombie movie. After witnessing a … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Film, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction
Tagged Amblin, Bad Robot, Elle Fanning, JJ Abrams, Joel Courtney, Spielberg, Super 8
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“Why Would You Want Empathy?”
At the risk of trivialising the previous week of thankfully ebbed unrest in this country, I’m reminded of a bit in Malcolm In The Middle. Reese, the eldest and most rampantly antisocial sibling, is sent to cookery class as punishment … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Comedy, Current Affairs, Popular Culture
Tagged August, Croydon, Enfield, Hal, Lois, London, Malcolm In The Middle, Reese, Riots, Scum, Tottenham
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