Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Caught the very amusing history of hip hop flick Krush Groove, about the rise of Run DMC, last week on a terrible New Year’s Day hangover. Then heard Kurtis Blow’s brilliant record ‘If I Ruled The World’ at Someday lounge the other night. So tracked down the Nas ft Lauren Hill video. Don’t you love [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Catching the 5AM flight from Amsterdam to Ibiza is painful enough without the inflight film being a Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds rom-com. In ‘The Proposal’ Sandra plays a hard-nosed publisher, who happens to be Canadian and facing deportation, who bullies her assistant, Ryan, into marrying her. An opportunity, you might think, to bust [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Clint Eastwood’s musclecar hymn to all-American masculinity, Gran Torino, upset me so much, initially, I couldn’t write about it. The problem isn’t that I hate the film. Quite the contrary. I like it. Or did until the point where the only viable female character, Sue Lor (Ahney Her) in the film is [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I avoided watching the Sex & The City film because I thought it would depress me. I wasn’t wrong. Mostly I hate the blatant consumerist brainwashing. Our entire culture is obsessed with consumption already. It’s not like we need any encouragement to waste money on pointless material objects. What makes the film [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I am not oblivious to the fact that being a radical feminist and rabid James Bond fan is about as congruous as being a Buddhist butcher. Nevertheless, I love Bond movies. Especially since Daniel Craig took over from the oleaginous Pierce Brosnan (even his name sounds like a bad double entendre) and [...]
Posted by irresponsibility I am finding it increasingly hard to justify buying woman’s magazines. They read like self-hatred indoctrination manuals. And they are insidious. The crude “look who’s put on five pounds!” Heat-style covers have given way to the sinister sophistication of magazines like Grazia (“Voted magazine of the year”) – a de facto weekly [...]
I loved the X-Files. Once a week, every week, during my first year at university my friends and I scrambled to our dorm common room to watch the latest adventures of Mulder and Scully. Every week the same haunting theme tune; every week the promise: “The Truth Is Out There.” That was 11 years ago [...]
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