Category: Humour
-
I used to write poems a lotThen for a while I did notBut I thought I might try againAnd I have decided when Each Friday…
-
The reproachful look on the face of the Tesco delivery driver made me die a little inside. There he was, punctual, friendly and efficiently providing…
-
Mini Proclaims’ singing might be better described as ‘enthusiastic’ rather than tuneful, but one can surely not fault her effort. Indeed, so compelling is her…
-
Oh, here he comes, the ‘podcaster’. Too high and mighty for the blogging community now, is he? You’d be forgiven for making that assumption. I…
-
I’ve not been here for a while. I haven’t forgotten my little blog, although I have been inconsistent at updating it for a few years…
-
As I write this it is the 3rd day of 2026, and a Saturday morning, but as I’m using my phone for the initial draft,…
-
Hello 2026! I have high hopes for you. Then again I had high hopes for 2025. And 2024. And all the other years that have…
-
Ever since this blog has existed, I have managed to produce some sort of review of the year on the 31st December. I almost didn’t…
-
As I write this, it is still very much Christmas Eve, but as with all of my ‘Christmas Day Messages’ this will hit the blogosphere…
-
‘Tis the day before Christmas, a day which also goes by the epithet of Christmas Eve. While one does occasionally happen upon advent calendars bestowed…
-
The original incarnation of Black Christmas may not have fully stood the test of time but when you consider that it was made in 1974,…
-
If at all possible, I do like to try and get at least one film into my advent calendar that was released in the year…
-
Spider-Man movies are, as a general rule, fairly popular with audiences and critics alike. But as good as many of the live-action movies have been,…
-
2023’s ‘straight-to-Netflix’ comedy Family Switch is objectively quite a bad film. Taking the parent-child body swapping trope and extending it to a whole family is…
-
1995’s Money Train is not a movie I caught at the time of its release, although it very much ticks all the boxes in terms…
-
As much as I enjoy watching a movie, one aspect of cinema I often lament is just how long some films are. I often think…
-
Given that it was the seventh adaptation of the original novel, it could have been argued in advance that the world didn’t really need Greta…
-
Whatever the merit’s of 2000’s The Family Man, and there are some, I am always troubled by a film which engages in the concept of…
-
Appreciation of 2012’s Ted is quite possibly dependent on whether or not you can tolerate the relentless nature of writer/director Seth MacFarlane’s approach to comedy.…
-
2016’s The Accountant is not really a film about accountancy but accountancy (of an admittedly implausible variety) does feature in the plot. Fortunately, so too…
-
Regular readers of my annual festive countdown (if indeed such people exist) may be aware that I generally enjoy the kind of movies, which don’t…
-
It turns out that there are quite a few films in existence that go by the name ‘Silent Night’. At least one of them, and…
-
It would be pretty hard to make a compelling claim that Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves is a good film. Any objective viewer would surely…
-
The third Harry Potter movie is a slightly less faithful adaptation of the source material than the first two films, and is all the better…
-
The biggest problem with Home Alone 3 is that it’s called Home Alone 3. It’s a movie I have avoided since its 1997 release, mainly…
-
I probably would never have seen 1987’s Moonstruck if I didn’t do this stupid annual list of movies with a tenuous link to Christmas. I…
-
Since 2015, Charlie Cox has undoubtedly been the definitive on-screen version of Marvel’s Daredevil, which has been one of the stronger offerings of the Marvel…
-
Last year, 1995’s Bad Boys made the cut for my annual countdown for the most dubious of reasons and it is a similarly questionable rationale…
-
2007’s I Am Legend is, in many ways, a fairly run-of-the mill post-apocalyptic flic. It’s perfectly acceptable fare and there are worse ways to spend…
-
I’ve enjoyed all of Kenneth Branagh’s outings as Hercule Poirot. It would be hard to argue a case for Branagh being the definitive version of…
-
When 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels hit cinemas, it genuinely felt like the arrival of the UK’s answer to Quentin Tarantino. With the…
James Proclaims! 