To me, Spelunkers are a completely alien species. I am totally bemused as to why anyone would want to spend time in the dark, under miles of rock, battling cold, and damp and crushing claustrophobia. And in movies at least, it always seems to go really badly wrong. Sanctum is a case in point –…
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When Amazing Grace – Michael Apted’s rich bio-pic of the political campaigner William Wilberforce – was released last year (to coincide with the bi-centennial of the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade) it came in for the usual braying criticism from the liberal media. The New York Times for instance, claimed that the movie “prettifies” the slave…
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