Tag: film

  • I think I was working at my old university’s student union or something (University of Manchester), except it was in Scotland. We were hosting a dinner with JD Vance and students and had promoted it, but not done anything to prepare for it. My brain kept mixing up Vance with (I think) Dan Snow, who…

    Dream: The JD Vance dinner
  • 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…

  • The teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode VII is out and it is causing much excitement, ridicule and exasperation at all the excitement and ridicule (delete as applicable): One of the things that has got a lot of people buzzing is the presence of stormtroopers, albeit Apple circa 2001 stormtroopers. Wasn’t the Empire destroyed at…

    Star Wars Episode VII: your republic is my empire