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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Oscars night 2011 – in the rear view mirror
So the Oscars came, and the Oscars went, and the most surprising thing was perhaps how efficient but airless it was: it got the job done, but it was a mainly joyless affair with the two young actor hosts notable … Continue reading
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Tagged academy awards, christian bale, colin firth, inception, king's speech, oscars, social network, true grit
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Oscars night 2011 – roll on up, place your bets
So it’s Oscar night over in Hollywood, and I think that makes it mandatory for every review-inclined blog to troop out at least one post on the subject of who will win, no matter how ill-informed. Since I haven’t seen … Continue reading
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Tagged aaron sorkin, academy awards, black swan, coen brothers, david fincher, king's speech, oscars, true grit
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True Grit (2010) – a bleak sunset in the West
I’m a relative newcomer to Westerns, having mainly scoffed at them until I was dragged along to a digital showing of a remastered The Searchers at the BFI by a friend five years ago. Since then I’ve got to know … Continue reading
At the Mountains of Madness – BBC Radio 4 Extra/ Spokenworld Audio
I’d better start off with a potentially sacrilegious confession: I’m not a fan of HP Lovecraft’s writing. To me, it comes across as wildly overblown purple prose that has aged really badly since it was originally written in the 1930s, … Continue reading
Hawaii Five-O – all pumped up and nowhere to go
Although I was too young to be interested in the original series of Hawaii Five-O, like everyone else the iconic theme and title sequence are seared into my memory and I was keen to see what they would do to … Continue reading
The Killing (Forbrydelsen) – S1 E9+10
There was a moment at the end of episode 8 of this series where I suddenly started to fear that the surface of this perfect gem of a show had started to crack. It was when the show all-but-repeated the … Continue reading
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Tagged Danish, detective, Forbrydelsen, murder, mystery, Sofie Gråbøl, The Killing
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Tate Modern – Photographic Typologies
If it hadn’t been for the recommendation of a friend via Twitter, I would have been completely unaware of this exhibition of photographs on the fifth floor of the Tate Modern – the museum doesn’t seem too interested in promoting … Continue reading
Tate Modern – Gabriel Orozco
Thanks to a wonderful Christmas gift of a Tate membership, I’m able to visit exhibitions that would not normally be ‘my sort of thing’ that I would choose to spend money on, and it’s a wonderful liberation to be able … Continue reading
The Killing (Forbrydelsen) – S1 E5+6
A couple of years ago, BBC4 had an unexpected hit on its hands when it screened four episodes of the Swedish TV detective series Wallander as part of a “support package” for the launch of the British version on BBC1 … Continue reading
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Tagged detective, Forbrydelsen, murder, mystery, Sofie Gråbøl, The Killing, The Wire, Twin Peaks, Wallander
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