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Culture round-up early 2017
Well, for some time now, my new role as podcast producer has made updating this blog very difficult, and in the light of the ghastly developments in UK and world politics, my half-assed views on TV...
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At the time of writing, I’ve seen four out of nine of the nominees. Here’s a quick assessment of the runners and the riders, and then I’ll post some more reviews. Arrival: Cerebral science fiction with...
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Oscars 2017: Manchester by the Sea, Lion, Hacksaw Ridge
Three more movies to add to my tally. Minor spoilers throughout – you have been warned. Manchester by the Sea Writer director Kenneth Lonergan was not someone whose work I was very familiar with. I’d...
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Oscars 2017- Fences and Moonlight
It would be easy to lazily lump these two films in the same category – family dramas dealing with contemporary issues of race and class – but actually Denzel Washington and Barry Jenkins’ films reveal...
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Oscars 2017 – Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, predictions
Hell or High Water This was still showing at a couple of rep cinemas but I missed it and had to catch up with it on iTunes. Maybe it would have cast a stronger spell over me in a cinema, but watching...
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