Tag: cinema
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I went to see two films. The first one was black and white and entirely set in the confines of a New Orleans barber shop. It was about a black kid who was struggling to make ends meet and afford a saxophone. The second was a full colour film about a white couple who got…
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Credit: John Spelling. U is a pretty tough letter to write about, unless I want to spend an evening writing about U-fronts, which in Dredd’s world are inexplicably the equivalent of Y-fronts. In the late mid-80s, this “futuristic” underwear featured in a number of stories, something which you would almost certainly never see in a…
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I went to see Stardust on Thursday and despite having low expectations of it, loved it. Getting the balance of humour and fantasy right so that it doesn’t look like self-indulgent nonsense is tricky and I think they even just about managed to pull off Robert De Niro in a dress. But one thing spoiled…