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Happy New Year! A roundup from 2025
2025 has not been a vintage year for this blog. I’ve been bloody hopeless but things are now getting back on track. I have three posts which are gently cooking and more ideas are coming. Thank you for bearing with…
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Cageathon #4
It has been a while: I won’t bore you with the full details. The succinct version is I wrapped up a very busy role at the end of January and moved into a new post as an Archive Researcher in…
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Happy New Year! A Roundup from 2024
I’m not the biggest fan of awards season. I avoid the BAFTA and OSCAR ceremonies, taking a passing interest in the nominees and eventual winners but nothing more than that. Occasionally there will be a year when the films recognised…
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A Christmas Story (1983): subverting the sentimental
Contains spoilers I couldn’t tell you the exact year I first watched Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story. It would have been the mid to late 1980s and we had a copy on VHS recorded from the television. I lost track…
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Reality Bites (1994) and so does Troy Dyer
Contains spoilers This post that you’re (hopefully) about to read was actually written in spring 2020 when we were in the midst of a global pandemic and lockdown suddenly gave me the headspace to start writing about film. I wasn’t…
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Halloween (1978): The Ballad of Looming Dr Loomis
Contains spoilers I love Halloween. I really dig autumn and all of its associated colours so pumpkins fit in great – although pumpkin spiced lattes can get in the sea. What’s more, despite leaning towards the sceptical, I have a…
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Nicolas Cageathon #3
Contains spoilers I’ve had to have a rethink about how I go about this as since I started this odyssey Cage has made another three films* and, according to IMDB, he has 6 films and a TV series in production…
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Tits n’ Glass: an appreciation of Road House (1989)
Contains many spoilers I might have a subconscious obsession with Patrick Swayze. He appeared in Point Break (1991) and is briefly in The Outsiders (1983) which was mentioned in Cageathon #2. He’s not a bad sort to be fixated on…
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Nicolas Cageathon #2
Rumble Fish (1983) dir. Francis Ford Coppola – plays Smokey Contains spoilers Rumble Fish is Nicolas Cage’s first credited role in a film directed by his uncle and it came out in October 1983, just four months after Valley Girl.…
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Le Havre: an ode to community
Contains spoilers I love themes of community in film. When a group of disparate people connect through place or experience and then band together for the common good, I’m all in. One example is The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953, dir. Charles…
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