Category: Humour
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ProcrastinationDelayed gratificationWithout the delay
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I respect cyclistsAnd their right to use all roadsNot on my commute
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My children assertA sentence is less funnyWithout the word poo
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I first drank a mochaccino in the late 1990sIt genuinely blew my mindUntil then I had been contentWith a middle-of-the rangeInstant coffee at homeBold Glend…
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Remember, remember the 5th of November, for some reason. I can’t remember why. Something about guide forks? I don’t know what a guide fork is…
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I don’t wish to sound ungratefulMy weekends are never hatefulBut sometimes they can be quite dullThough busy and quite often full Straightforward as weekends can…
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Ten years ago today I wrote my first proclamation on this blog. Well, I sort of did anyway. I certainly published the first post on…
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I started 2025 with some fairly ambitious plans for my blog. Not only was I planning to hit the fairly achievable target of at least…
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The bells have tolled, the ball has dropped and in various countries, around the world, people have eaten grapes, carried suitcases a short distance or…
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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…
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is, to date, the only sequel to the 1990 original that I’ve seen. I may, as a result…
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2020’s Fatman is an interesting concept that doesn’t necessarily deliver on it’s initial promise. You probably get as much out of watching the trailer as…
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The third movie to make this year’s advent calendar that was released this year is Red One. Promising to be the first entry in an…
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And so to the second of three movies to make the cut for my 2024 advent calendar that were actually released in 2024. Dear Santa…
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I’ve been doing this annual festive film countdown for a fair few years now, and so committed have I become to making sure I have…
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Released in the year I started doing this annual festive nonsense, 2017’s Anna and the Apocalypse has cruelly missed out on prior inclusion due to…
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2015’s Joy reunites director David O’Russell with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, following on from their collaborations on Silver Linings Playbook and…
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1995’s Bad Boys is one of my favourite Michael Bay movies. Or at least it’s one of the few Michael bay movies that I don’t…
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2009’s Precious is not an easy watch, detailing, as it does, the harrowing abuse of a teenager. It is, nonetheless, a pretty compelling movie and…
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2019’s Shaft is a sort of reboot/sort of sequel to the 2000 movie of the same name, which was in, itself, a sort of reboot/sort…
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I’m not sure which actor has featured the most often in the various iterations of my annual festive countdown, but Sylvester Stallone has to be…
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Having included the first two Expendables movies in previous iterations of my annual countdown for the most spurious of reasons, it seemed only right to…
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The second Harry Potter movie came hot on the heels of the first, meaning that it largely had all the same charm and many of…
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This year saw a new entry into the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, some 40 years after the original and 30 years after the preceding outing.…
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Notionally based on real-life events, 2017’s American Made doesn’t appear to be too weighed down by fidelity to historical accuracy. Which does make it a…
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Anyone wanting to make a compelling case for the theory that actors are little more than talking props, need look no further than 2016’s ‘Why…
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2019’s Hustlers packs more storytelling into 110 minutes than many a movie with significantly longer running times. A wholly original take on the ‘crime caper’…
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I did, for a few years, have a Facebook account. I didn’t really ever much see the point of it and I haven’t missed it…
James Proclaims! 