There are two types of people in the world and they’re living in your head. They vary depending on the person they’re inside. If you’re trying to stay healthy, then one person will definitely being trying to convince you to keep on the diet, whilst the other one is saying surely you’ve been good for long enough to earn at least one treat. If you’re trying to focus on getting something done then you know one of those people in your head is going to be telling you that there’s no harm in taking just one little night off.
Read MoreNever mind. I don’t want to talk about DC. If I get onto DC, then I’ll have to talk about Marvel and how they’re going to ruin the MCU just by continuing to play the odds. They could have taken a step back with Endgame. It was a solid ending, it gave everything they’d been spinning together an arc. But, no, now it’s TV tie ins and cartoons and it won’t last. It can’t last. None of this can last. It’s going to reach a point where comic book movies become a joke.
Read MoreOf course, back then November 2019 seemed an impossibly long way away. Never mind your galaxies far, far away. Blade Runner felt even more unreachable, if only because we’d been told at the start just how close to our lives it might be. The flying cars. The replicants. The seething streets and the nightmare skyline. Flames erupting into the darkness from skyscraper high chimneys. Towering advertisements for soft drinks and escape blaring into the night at all hours. The rain and the traffic never stopping.
Read MoreI’ve always loved the cinema. It started with the first movie I ever went to see. My dad took me to the grand old, art deco Odeon that used to sit in central Leicester to watch the newly re-issued Jungle Book. It blew me away. The deep reaching perspective of Kipling’s jungle in the credits. The moody atmosphere that seemed to lurk in the opening few scenes and the sheer, wild delight that took its place until a certain tiger cornered a boy amongst dying trees, the flames spread and I was made to believe a heroic slob of a bear had died.
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