To quote that great authority on Shakespearian acting, Withnail’s Uncle Monty, “it is the most devastating moment in a young man’s life when he quite reasonably says to himself ‘I shall never play the Dane!’” Shakespeare might have ascribed seven ages to man in As You Like It, but as […]
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Love Gets a Room (2021): A Holocaust Musical? (Review)
A movie about the Holocaust…but it’s a musical. You’ve got to admit, it takes some cojones to make that movie. Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés obviously believes he has those cojones. The filmmaker resposinble for the challenge of 2010’s claustrophobic, single-setting thriller Buried, steps up now to make Love Gets a […]
Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations – Literary Loitering 129
Sherrington’s New Steampunk Balls – Literary Loitering 128
The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find something good to read, and along the way they find strange tidings that include tales of someone doing something nice on Twitter, Logjam Day, re-issuing books under their author’s original pen-names, stage performances on Zoom, lectures from […]
Wes Anderson’s Tommy Knockers – Literary Loitering 127
Topsy-Turvy (1999) Mike Leigh’s chaotic ode to the theatre (Review)
Art is (probably) dead. Years from now, when future generations look back on our cultural offerings, I feel like they’ll be underwhelmed. Perhaps I’m just being crude and narrow-minded, but the glory days of innovation and experimentation are long behind us. It’s why so many films set themselves in periods […]
She’s All About The Joust – Literary Loitering 121
Attack Of The Light Novel Raccoon – Literary Loitering 120
Targaryen Pterosaurs Versus Raptor Jesus – Literary Loitering 119
After a short hiatus (for several reasons which include an attempted podcast coup-de-tat across The Geek Show), the cultural anarchists are back where they belong. Where that is remains a mystery. Anyway, this time we’ve got the long-awaited continuation of Game of Thrones-watch featuring Grr Martin and flying dinosaurs. In […]