Tag: film
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Happy Star Wars Day everyone! When did this become a thing? I think I first came across the notion that the 4th May was considered…
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So we get to the last of the much-lamented prequel trilogy. This one did at least have a slightly better title. And clearly no-one learned…
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Three years after everyone got upset by ‘The Phantom Menace’, we all failed to learn our lesson and flocked to the cinemas in our droves…
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Thus, begins my mission to write about Star Wars for days, if not weeks, on end. And where better to begin than Episode One? That…
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And so The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films comes to an end. But what film could be lurking behind door 24?…
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Time for door 23 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films, which, thankfully means we’re almost done with my delusions of film…
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2015’s Run All Night is the third (of four to date) collaborations between director Jaume Collet-Serra and senescent superman Liam Neeson. Like all their other collaborations…
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Barry Levinson’s 1982 directorial debut, Diner is an eminently watchable film. Although nothing much really happens. Set in 1959, it’s a sort-of coming-of-age story about…
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Door 20 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films brings us 1985’s Better Off Dead. Which is quite a strange film. At…
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1998’s Soldier seems like exactly the kind of film I would have been watching in the late 90’s. It’s as generic a sci-fi action flic as you…
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It’s December 18th, which means we’re now only a week from the big day. Probably time to start wrapping the presents. Be careful with those…
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If yesterday’s entry, Love Actually found me conflicted over my feelings about Richard Curtis as a filmmaker, then his directorial follow-up The Boat That Rocked did little…
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Richard Curtis is a man who divides opinions. Specifically he divides my opinions. In some respects the man achieved a God-like status in my esteem…
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Door 15 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films reveals the third in this year’s collection, which is an adaptation of a…
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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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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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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’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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