I’ve missed a couple of Mondays. This week I’m going with some of composer Angelo Badalamenti’s most moving music. I’ve cried twice watching David Lynch’s work. Both times it was during The Straight Story. It’s a film that doesn’t get a lot of attention amongst Lynch’s other films, perhaps because of its straightforward, biographical narrative. […]
Read more "Monday Music 19 – 2017"Here’s a link to my latest conversation with Cameron and Hal on the Obnoxious and Anonymous YouTube channel. Really enjoyed it and we talked about loads of stuff including stopwatches, arm wrestling and the threat of nuclear war before we get to the season finale. Beware of spoilers if you’re not up to date. Cheers […]
Read more "More Twin Peaks talk"May contain spoilers, etc. . . . . . . I was lucky enough to get an unexpected chance to go to the cinema earlier this week. What I went to see will be obvious from the title of this article. Since I became a parent on New Year’s Day 2015, I’ve seen the following […]
Read more "Valerian – My thoughts"This contains spoilers for episode 1-11 of Twin Peaks: The Return. Not many but it’s possible. . . . . . . It’s Sunday night here in the UK. Usually, I’d be looking forward to waking up tomorrow and having a new episode of Twin Peaks to watch. However, I’m on holiday in Cornwall at […]
Read more "Twin Peaks: The Return – Still loving it!!"I’ve been thinking lately about two films: you can probably guess the them from the title. Anyway, they’re both widely regarded to be the high watermark in their respective franchises, Star Trek and Star Wars respectively. I started thinking about whether there was any reason for this. What do the two films have in common? […]
Read more "The Wrath of the Empire Strikes Khan Back"My latest article for Taste of Cinema is now live here: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/all-13-star-trek-movies-ranked-from-worst-to-best/ Took me a while to get it done as it turned out to be a longer piece than I expected but I’m quite happy with it. Let me know if you disagree with my order in the comments. Thanks for reading, now I […]
Read more "Star Trek: The Movies"Yay, finally finished the Star Trek article for Taste of Cinema. I’ll post a link when it goes live. What a relief!!! That took me much longer than I expected. Richard
Read more "Star Trek article coming up!!"Last week’s news was all about the new appointment of Jodie Whittaker to the role of the Doctor. So, for this week’s Monday music I decided to celebrate some of the great women who have stepped into roles which were initially written for men. Some have attracted more controversy than others but they have all […]
Read more "Monday Music 18 – 2017"I grew up watching films like Valley of Gwangi and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. The standout feature of films like these were not the acting or the script but the wonderful monsters that terrorised the protagonists. These monsters were almost all created by master animator, Ray Harryhausen. There were no computers back then. It […]
Read more "Top 10 Ray Harryhausen monsters"I feel a bit strange doing this one. I’ve promised to show her before I hit Publish because I don’t want to embarrass her. I struggled with thinking about what I was going to write and then it came to me. When I popped the question (all the way back in 2011) as we bobbed […]
Read more "S is for Serena"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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