One of the joys of the school holidays is a constant rotation of teen movies on the tv. The Host was last up. And O – M – G it was ridiculous. Now, I’ve never read any Stephanie Meyer, but I understand her books are incredibly badly written, with turgid and stilted dialogue between the…
Read moreFarewell, My Queen
For the first hour, Farewell, My Queen ranks right up there as one of the best films I have ever seen. It’s the story of three tumultuous days of the French Revolution as it impacts on the rarified and hitherto unimagined world of Versailles: it takes the point of view of the myriad of servants…
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In February 2002, then US Defense Secretary, the charmless sociopath Donald Rumsfeld said of Iraq: “We know there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say we know there are things we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns…
Read moreInglourious Basterds
Tarantino brings World War II to an explosive and entirely non-historic end with The Inglourious Basterds. Basically it’s a double story thread – a group of American Jews are behind enemy lines, killing (and scalping – a real yeuch) Nazis. And a Jew who runs a Paris cinema gets a chance to revenge the murder…
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