Knives Out (2019) is a murder mystery in the best traditions of the genre. The movie won an academy award for best film script and the award was well justified - it’s a classy production with a strong cast and has a story that Agatha Christie would have killed for. Harlan Thrombey (played by Christopher …
THE GHIT THAT JUST KEEPS GIVING
Ronald Rump, former Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT) and former Prez of ‘Murica, has his sights set on reclaiming all his former titles: GHIT, Prez and ‘World’s Greatest Comedian’ (WGC) with millions of his adoring acolytes pouring money into his 2024 re-election campaign. Rump kicked off his WGC comedy routine by being indicted on felony …
TÁR – THE MOVIE
Tár, a 2020 film written, directed and produced by Todd Field, is already celebrated by many critics. It’s one of those ‘art’ movies that you’ll either love or think the two hours and thirty-eight minutes spent watching it would have been better used to watch paint dry. At the beginning of the movie Lydia Tár …
GHOST DREAMS BY MATTHEW HUGHES
Ghost Dreams by Matthew Hughes, PS publishing 2022 - Stan Winkelman, career burglar from a long family line of light-fingered criminals, is nearing the end of his career and thinking about retirement on a tropical island. His wife has been dead for a long time, having left him the sole care-giver of Jeannie, a now …
ROALD DAHL’S CHILDREN’S MOVIES
By the time Roald Dahl died in late 1990, there were already a few films based on his children’s works, none of which he liked. The most famous of these was the 1971 Mel Stuart version of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Despite the commercial success of the movie, Dahl was disappointed that Gene Wilder …
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FROM A DAHL’S EYE VIEW
Roald Dahl would have loved the attention he’s been getting lately - while alive he courted controversy and was often inspired to tweak people's sensibilities with outlandish statements. On the other hand, given how carefully he crafted his work, he probably would have had apoplexy over the intention of his publisher to create new editions …
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A YEAR LATER – PART THREE
A YEAR LATER - PART THREE I’ve always considered myself government wary and, acknowledging history’s horrible examples, more of a pragmatist than a military hawk. I confess that I also never imagined a world entering the 21st Century with some idiot in charge of a major world nuclear power invading an independent country and …
A YEAR LATER – PART TWO
Despite the war in Ukraine dragging on at a huge cost to Russia’s economy, Vlad (the Impaler) shows no signs of backing down his offensive. Like Hitler before him, Vlad has a deeply rooted belief that Western democracies are weak and have no appetite for a long war. His belief was bolstered when he …
ONE YEAR LATER
A YEAR LATER - PART ONE As of November last year, it was estimated that Russia spent $84 billion and had well over two hundred thousand casualties in its bid to turn Ukraine into a vassal state. I suppose it’s irrelevant to count the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians killed, or the …
NEED A NEW LEADER FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
In addition to all the scenes from around the world showing people unhappy with their government, I was watching news clips from Kanadoodle’s Iglooarliament during what I laughingly refer to as ‘question period’. It’s not so much questioning as scoring points against your opponents and it seems to generate great fun for the politicians that …
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