Day 18 Best ‘meet cute’ on screen Quick one today, as I’m not feeling great. My vote for this goes to Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts meeting in Notting Hill. A great premise and well-written and acted. There are things about the film that I don’t like, but their meeting is very well done indeed. […]
Read more "28 Days of Love on Screen – Day 18 – Best ‘meet cute’ on screen"Day 17 Best ‘Unrequited Love’ Story Very recent, this one; but something that’s really stuck with me ever since I saw it. I didn’t expect to be as taken with Netflix’s 3 Body Problem as I was, but when I watched it, I was hooked. I found the story of Will and Jin to be […]
Read more "28 Days of Love on Screen – Day 17 – Best ‘unrequited love’ Story"Hi all, You can catch me on YouTube with my friend Cameron talking about the news that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is apparently getting a reboot on Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar returning in the title role. Cheers, Richard
Read more "Talking Hulu’s Buffy Reboot on YouTube"Hi everyone, Day 1 is here, and this also marks my 500th post on this website. Best Love Story My pick for this is Michael Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. What a fantastic film, full of wonderful moments and emotion. This is my favourite performance of Jim Carrey’s […]
Read more "28 days of Love on Screen – Day 1 – Best Love Story"Hello everyone and welcome to 28 Days of Love on Screen. Every day in February, the month of love, I’ll be picking my favourite example from film or TV for each of these categories. I’ve always been a sucker for a good romance on screen and I’ll be sharing my favourites this month. You can […]
Read more "February Blogging Challenge – 28 Days of Love on Screen"I was long overdue a rewatch of Shawn Ryan’s masterpiece drama and when it appeared on Amazon Prime, it neatly solved the problem I had. I bought Seasons 3 and 4 in America years ago and I don’t have the DVD player to watch them on NTSC any more. With that stumbling block out of […]
Read more "Rewatching ‘The Shield’"Hi everyone, I did this show as part of a series that my good friend Frank is running his YouTube channel, diving into our love for all things Twin Peaks. It was great to have a chat about it. Subscribe to his channel and you’ll see some more great content that he’s putting out. Cheers […]
Read more "Why I Love Twin Peaks"It’s been a number of years since I sat down and watched this. I’ve probably not touched it since before 2012. I was about to do a whole run through of this and Buffy just before all the unpleasant allegations against Joss Whedon emerged. I shelved that idea and spent quite a long time sitting […]
Read more "Rewatching Angel (1999-2004)"If the first four parts of Cameron Cloutier’s extension of Twin Peaks mythology were great, this fifth visit to the world both wondrous and strange is simply sublime. It starts with familiar strobe effects, disconcerting slash cuts from one image to the next and a series of uncomfortable, awkward close ups that thrust us into […]
Read more "Queen of Hearts – Act V review and thoughts"Hi there, I’m just checking in to offer a few of my thoughts on Act IV of Cameron Cloutier’s Twin Peaks fan film, Queen of Hearts. And also to try to get “Groove is in the Heart” out of my head. This one took us to a number of places and in a number of […]
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