Category: review
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Day 22 of this self-indulgent wander down a memory-lane of music from a decade that is inherently less nostalgic for me than the decade that…
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It’s always a shame that I have to write twenty other posts before I can finally make time for ‘U’. But that is the way…
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It’s finally time for ‘T’. But not necessarily time for tea as I’m more of a coffee drinker by trade. But do feel free to…
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When I get to ‘S’ in an A-Z challenge, I always feel like I’m on the home straight. Although there are still seven letters to…
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Day 18 of the 2021 A-Z challenge and time to reflect on where we are. And where we are is ‘R’. R is for Red…
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‘Q’ is always one of the most challenging letters in an A-Z challenge. Most years I’ve had to expand the parameters a little in order…
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And so we get around to ‘O’. Which is OK. Well part of OK. Did I make that joke for ‘K’? Yes. Yes I did.…
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Welcome to the beginning of the second half of the 2021 A-Z Blogging Challenge, in which I attempt to catalogue an alphabetised list of albums…
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It’s always a grim realisation when I get to ‘M’ in any A-Z challenge that I’m actually only half way there. But after today we…
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Day 12 of my A-Z of noughties music and today we’re all going to ‘L’. L is for Love Kraft Super Furry Animals were one…
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Today is the turn of the letter ‘K’ in my A-Z retrospective of albums from the noughties. And that’s OK. Well part of OK anyway.…
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It’s time for ‘J’ in my A-Z of albums I liked from the noughties. I struggled with this letter for last year’s 90s retrospective but…
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It is time for ‘I’ in the 2021 A-Z Challenge. The letter ‘I’ often tends to lead to an intro full of pronoun fun when…
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Day 8 of the 2021 A-Z Challenge and it already feels like this has been going on for far too long. I’m very much enjoying…
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I have often wondered where we would be without the seventh letter of the alphabet. It wouldn’t be a good state of affairs. It might…
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It’s time for ‘F’ in the James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger. And there is…
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It’s day 5 of ‘James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger’ and it’s time to address…
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Due to the traditional omission of Sundays from the April A-Z Blogging challenge, we’re now out of synch between the date and the numerical position…
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It’s day 3 of the 2021 A-Z challenge and I can see the ‘C’. Because that is the third letter of the alphabet. So let’s…
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It’s the second day of April and not a fool is in sight. But the A-Z Blogging Challenge continues and so we must move on…
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It’s April! A month best known worldwide for being the one which hosts my birthday. It’s also a month which enjoys a dubious association with…
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Ever since I started this blog, back in 2015, I’ve posted a sort of ‘review of the year’ on the 31st of December. It’s the…
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And so another pointless Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films reaches it’s conclusion. Because it’s Christmas Eve and that’s how these things work. But what it…
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There are some movies that are so interwoven with my childhood that to say I love them would seem somehow inadequate. Obviously (as anyone who…
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Back in 2017, when I first started doing The James Proclaims Advent Calendar Of Christmas(ish) Films I included Rocky IV in the line-up. Because it…
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2014’s The Equalizer is a fairly ‘by-the-book’ action flic, that is elevated by having a decent cast, headed by Denzil Washington, and a director in…
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According to his Wikipedia entry, Mike Newell is best known for directing Four Weddings and Funeral, Donnie Brasco and Harry Potter and the Goblet of…
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is a pretty joyless affair. Set in a dystopian future, which is the not too distant 2027, it depicts a…
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The main selling point of 2013’s ‘Grudge Match’ is the notion of a match-up between Rocky and Raging Bull. But iconic though those two silver…
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1998’s ‘The Truman Show’ is something of a genre-defying movie, that also turned out to be ahead of its time. Had it been made more…
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