Film Reviews
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DON’T LOOK UP directed by Adam McKay – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate ... -
TENET directed by Christopher Nolan (FILM REVIEW)
As our first post-lockdown cinema trip, Tenet certainly offered plenty of flash bang entertainment, but beneath the muscular action sequences lies an intricately twisted plot that ... -
THE KING (Film Review)
‘All men are born to die, we know it. We carry it with us always. If your day be today, so be it. Mine will be ... -
The Martian (Book and Film Review)
As a six-year-old primary school pupil in 1970 I remember the strange assembly where the headmaster led us all, as a school, in praying for the ... -
Aquaman (Movie Review)
The term “guilty pleasure” gets tossed around a bit too much these days in the realm of entertainment. In my view, if a piece of entertainment, ... -
A Book and a Film: The Man Who Fell to Earth
I can’t remember exactly when I first saw the film of The Man Who Fell to Earth – back in the 1980s, I guess, when TV channels ... -
Two Films & a Book: Blade Runner (1982; 2017) & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Having recently seen Blade Runner 2049, I finally got around to reading Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on which the original Ridley Scott Blade ...