running, reading, nonsense.
Classically Lacking is a series where I tackle classics which have passed me by and pass judgement on them. Have they held up? Are they worth revisiting? This week, I'm taking on a Christmas classic in a genre I - stereotypically - know little about: the Rom Com. On the latest episode of Mark Kermode… Continue reading Love Actually (Classically Lacking)
Photo by Caroline Hernandez on Unsplash Ho ho ho, let’s go go go and look at another week full of pop culture and books and games and all kinds of nice stuff. It’s the first of that magical month of December. Sick of it all yet? Have you already heard Last Christmas 87 times? Are you wishing for… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 01/12
With Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman soon to be upon us I figured now would be as good a time as any to feature ol' Marty on Classically Lacking. With Joker still so near in my rear view, there was really only one film to be chosen. The King of Comedy. Released in 1983 to positive… Continue reading The King of Comedy
Two Sunday's in a row I've had no work so I'm once again coming to you live from my post-run Sunday seat, rattling out a steady stream of stuff that I've enjoyed, so that now you can too! Second hand books, RPG's, grimy rap, experimental pop, big budget TV, independent film... What more do you… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 10/11
There was a time not so long ago when the world was infected with zombie madness. I’m thinking between the mid-noughties to the early tens, starting roughly with Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake and Shaun of the Dead in 2004 all the way to World War Z in 2013 (which also saw the… Continue reading Night of the Living Dead
Classically Lacking is a series of reviews where I tackle some so-called-classics which have passed me by and make an argument either for or against going back and taking them on if you've missed them too, because who has time these days? You know how many shows Netflix has? And I don't mean Friends I… Continue reading Suspiria (1977)
Welcome to a big fat Sunday Morning Stuff. Oh there’s a lot of stuff. Oh boy. Oh wow. Look at all this stuff just clogging up the week, isn’t it great? In fact there’s so much stuff I don’t even really have time to ramble on about the weather or politics or anything… Reading LOOK,… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 08/09
Buongiorno. I don’t what it is with me and the Italian language, but I’ve always wanted to learn it, and I’ve tried several times. It would be far more practical to pursue one of the languages that I began at school - French or Spanish - but I just…don’t want to. What I’m saying is… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 04/08
I nearly always end up writing about the weather in the introduction to these posts, I don’t know why. I don’t really need to write an introduction at all, I could just dive right in and talk about the week’s stuff, it’s all fairly self-explanatory. But there’s something off about that. I feel like we… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 28/07
Ashamed of my Tarantino blind spots, I get to work filling in his filmography bingo card before his new release this summer.
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