I wouldn’t know Peaches Geldof if she bit me on the foot. Well, maybe if she bit me on the foot. Went to The Hospital Club (blind) on Tuesday night in London to see a performance and it happened to be herself and the band/brand/designers Rodnik. Terrible. Though I chuckled in the tube the next [...]

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I did enjoy the Fifth Element. Not sure how it slipped past my view until now, which may have just been me avoiding Bruce Willis. Chris Tucker steals the show as Ruby Rhod, cosmic DJ. By no means a great film, or a replacement it its inspirational predecessor Brazil, but worth the romp if just [...]

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Atonement was a great piece of film-making. Joe Wright delivers an ambitious second, feature-length film. (Pride & Prejudice never should have been re-made IMHO.) The film teeters on the edge of perhaps of trying too hard, but ultimately delivers. There is a much talked about long take during wartime and just when you think the [...]

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Sky+ (the equivalent to TiVo here) leads to some strange combinations, so we sat through the 1997 Radiohead documentary, Meeting People Is Easy, followed by Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Meeting People Is Easy was shot during the OK Computer Tour. This is a seminal album and a desert-island disc for me. The film paints [...]

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For the second year in a row, the Christmas television schedule has been pretty lousy. Where is It’s a Wonderful Life or the original Miracle on 34th Street? I couldn’t even find the Charlie Brown Christmas Special or the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Though Dickens can be a bit dark on the Christmas cheer [...]

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