Category: Humour
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We’re up to door 14 The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and it’s as if time is literally flying by as…
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It’s Friday the 13th. Which is considered unlucky by some. And possibly it is for the entire population of the UK who might well be…
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It’s December 12th and, if my understanding of current events is in any way accurate, then I believe there is a general election happening in…
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11 days into The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and we arrive at 2002’s About a Boy. Which is about a…
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Door 10 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films brings us 2002’s The Rules of Attraction. Which is not the helpful guide…
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As it is very much the 9th Day of December, it seems only right that we open door number 9 of The Third Annual James…
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Door 8 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films brings us 2005’s Just Friends. Notionally a ‘rom-com’ it probably is a little…
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As we move further into December, so too continues The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films. Today we are on door number…
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It’s December 6th and therefore no coincidence that it’s time to open door number 6 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish)…
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I vaguely remember 2012. It wasn’t the best year ever if I recall. I enjoyed the London Olympics. One of my cousins got married, which…
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Door four of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films is looking a little grimy. Indeed, when we open it, we are…
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Door 3 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and what do we find. Why it’s 2015’s Tangerine. A movie shot entirely on…
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Well it seems like only yesterday that we were enjoying the beginning of the final month of 2019, yet here we are already on December…
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And so it begins. December 2019 I mean. And with is comes The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films. And let us…
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As today is the last day of November, I’m quietly confident in predicting that tomorrow will be the first day of December. Obviously that presumption…
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And so here we are, a month from Christmas and soon the traditions of the season will be upon us. Although, as is the…
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It is the 18th November, which quite possibly means that Christmas is nearly upon us. It also means that I haven’t troubled the blogosphere for…
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As is the norm of a Sunday night (which is when I’m writing this, though, in order to allow time for the proofreading that I…
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It’s been almost three full months since I last elected to post on these pages, over five months since the post that preceded that and,…
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As I’ve mentioned in one or more of my previous ponderous posts, I’m currently in the process of attempting (but not really succeeding) to write…
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Today is Blue Monday. Apparently, this is what the cool kids now call the third Monday in January. It’s supposedly the most depressing day of…
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Sometimes I wonder if I am the personification of procrastination. If I were to look up the definition for procrastination in a dictionary, I would…
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Today is the 7th January, which means that we’re a week into 2019. It also means that we’re almost a quarter of the way through…
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Happy New Year everyone! Today is the first day of 2019 and, as is always the case at the beginning of any year, it is…
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It’s still 2018 as I write this. At least it is in the UK. In some other time zones it might well be 2019 by…
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As it is now a firmly established tradition that I write a Christmas message on Christmas Day, I shan’t eschew that responsibility and let down…
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It’s Christmas Eve once more and therefore logic would dictate that it’s time for the final entry in The Second Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar…
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Director John Frankenheimer made into last’s years James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films with the, frankly, awful but surprisingly Christmas(ish) Reindeer Games. If that…
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2008’s Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is a pretty decent follow up to 2004’s Hellboy. Both movies were directed by Guillermo Del Toro, who made…
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For a movie that is based on the premise of middle aged men abusing their status and power to conduct extramarital affairs with their younger…
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