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The Sixth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 3
1996’s 101 Dalmatians is technically the second ‘live action’ remake of an earlier animated feature if you consider 1994’s The Jungle Book to be the…
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The Sixth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 2
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The Sixth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 1
2010’s The Kings Speech picked up its fair share of awards, not least Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 2011…
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The Sixth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Preamble
For much of 2022 I have been absent from this blog. This has predominantly been due to the fact that I became a dad for…
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A Post That Is Not Not About Being A Dad
It’s the afternoon of Saturday 25th June 2022, as I sit down to write this, and thus attempt to mark the end of a three…
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James Complains About A Lamentable Trip To A Supermarket
It’s been a while since last I blogged and in that time the world has gone from being predominantly concerned with a pandemic to being…
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And so ends 2024. And what a year it has been. A quick perusal of various news sites suggests quite a lot of stuff has…
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There are no chestnuts roasting on an open fire. That seems like a ridiculously unnecessary hazard in a small terraced house in Reading. There are…
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And so this is Christmas. Well Christmas Eve anyway. Which means that for another year my Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) films must draw to a…









