Perhaps I’m attuned to the genre, or just a sucker for claustrophobic dramas set in the hauntingly bleak English countryside, but Barnaby Roper’s All the Devils Are Heredeserves a lot more than its lowly 5.5 on IMDb. To place the film too accurately is to risk giving away too much, but, suffice it to say, […]
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I didn’t know what to expect going into last night’s film but that’s often the case when I’m following a film season or simply following an actor I like. I don’t need a trailer or precis of the plot once I know they’re in the film. That is uniquely true of Eva Green. It’s always […]
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I was never going to be a Paddington fan. Not the character, you understand. I grew up with the animated TV show narrated by the great Michael Horden, who also narrated my favourite movie (Barry Lyndon) and therefore could do no wrong. I mean, I was never the natural audience for the film version made in 2014. Yet […]
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It’s a cool domain name and it was available. Yes, I know. Available. Crazy, isn’t it?
Really?
Yes. It also helps that it’s also my favourite satire written by Alexander Pope, one of the most metrically pure English poets who also knew his way around a crude insult or two. If you’ve not read it, you should give it a try.
So this is satire, right?
Can’t deny it. There will be some. But it’s also an experiment in writing and drawing, giving work away for free in order to see how many people are willing to support a writer doing his thing. It’s the weird stuff that I wouldn’t get published elsewhere in this word of diminishing demands and cookie-cutter tastes.
