Director Marc Forster said of his film that he wanted it to be “fast, like a bullet”. So fast that it is the shortest of Daniel Craig’s Bond movies, so brief that it rushes through exposition at a rate of knots and ponderous silences are mercifully cut short. The plot is rushed, erratic and confusing. …
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Casino Royale – deconstructing, reconstructing & demolishing Bond
Shortly after earning his double-0 status by registering two kills, Bond (Daniel Craig) is engaged in a surveillance mission in Madagascar, the subject of which is a bomb maker Mollaka. This leads to a chase across a building site with both men leaping off cranes and free running around scaffolding and half finished structures. In …
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No Time To Die – Review (spoilers)
Immediately after the title tune, No Time To Die continues with a heist scene. It opens up brilliantly with figures abseiling down a skyscraper. They are reflected against the glass of the artifice which creates the illusion there are more than there actually are. It’s an eyecatching sequence, beautifully shot and a wonderful way to …
One racist in our society is one too many
There was a gruesome inevitability about the abhorrent racist abuse that three English footballers received following the penalty shoot out in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday evening. One could trawl over the ignorance, the hate and the wickedness for several pages yet it might be more insightful to think about this issue from a …
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No more fine margins please!
Gareth Southgate was a defender as a player. It shows when he is in charge as England coach. Many have praised his time in the role due to reaching the semi finals in Russia 2018 and how we have negotiated the way through to the quarter finals of Euro 2020. He has brought a sense …
The Self Appointed European Super League
Many football fans don’t feel entitled to trophies. Nor do they feel entitled to status or membership of a league. They understand that a certain degree of success on the pitch is required to attain these things. A competitive edge. For a vast array of fans, they know only too well that they are entitled to nothing …
Silver Bullet V Blonde Bullshit
The announcement in November that a vaccine to combat Covid 19 was on the way marked a significant moment in the struggle with the Pandemic. The United Kingdom’s government were in raptures, perhaps because they’d been all over the place in regards to logistics and messaging so that the vaccine might make most of their problems go …
No Time To Be Released
With the announcement that the latest James Bond film is having its release pushed back a third time so that it could end up reaching cinema screens two years after originally planned, anticipation around the project will only grow. However, the stakes have also been precariously raised because if the film is a let-down, many …
Crocodile Tiers and Late Lockdowns – The UK Government’s Failure on Covid 19
By early March it was becoming increasingly obvious that the government were being overtaken by events as the virus had permeated through the United Kingdom. Washing your hands for a prolonged amount of time simply wasn’t going to cut it. At this point in a metropolis like London, the vast majority of people hadn’t got the memo …
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Portrayal of Class A drugs in the movies
In 1996 a film was released that many felt glamourized drug abuse. 8 years later another movie dealing with very similar subject matter arguably did so in a more explicit manner but curiously avoided that debate. The different public and critical reaction to each film tells us something about how society regards Class A drugs, …
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