Since the dawn of time people have thought things which were actually awful were cool; take Doctor House from super-popular TV show House M.D. for example—he’s an all around awful man who has got many a patient’s (and colleague’s) goat. Every day I run into people who seem to be just like Doctor House, and I wish I hadn’t. But on this forum someone asks the dreaded question: how can I be like House?
Another person suggests being brutally (more…)
Roger Lloyd pack is a talented man with much more up his sleeve than most actors and a capacity to astonish in practically any role he takes on. You may, if you’re not familiar, also know him as the unfortunate ‘Trigger’ from vintage comedy series Only Fools And Horses.
In The Living And The Dead (2006) Lloyd pack plays Lord (Donald) Brocklebank, a man doing his best to cope with a truly nightmarish scenario that has been unfolding for some (more…)
I confess: the legendary film that is Heat sat dusty and neglected on my shelf for several years before I finally gave in and watched it; the concept didn’t impress me much, that was the first thing I ’held against it—there seemed to be nothing unique or individual about the idea of guys running around shooting guns in a cat and mouse mafia-meets-police-force kind of a way. Obviously that wasn’t the only reason I was convinced it had to be (more…)
Once (2007) is one of those small, spell-binding, heart-breakingly sweet films that don’t come along very often and are gone again all too soon.
What makes it different to everything else out there? For a start 1) It’s a musical and 2) It’s Irish.
Glen Hansard—of well-known Irish Rock band The Frames—plays thirty-ish ‘Guy, the kind of invisible busking musician you’ve probably walked past a thousand times on the way to work and never given a second thought. Scraping (more…)
Mike Leigh is one of Britain’s greatest modern filmmakers. His movies can vary from being gritty, touching, heart-warming or disturbing; but they are always incredibly realistic. Along with the likes of Alan Bleasdale and Ken Loach, Mike Leigh is very good at giving a true-to-life picture of our country. Over the years I have seen quite a lot of his work, but my favourite is still, ‘High Hopes’.
It centres on a likeable biker couple who live in a small (more…)