I'm gonna go for broke. I am madly in love with you There are many films that you see that shape your life when you are growing up or even older. This particular film has given me a life-long love of many other films, actors and an American institution. That film was Ghostbusters. It was…
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The Peter Cook Tribute – A beginner’s guide to a comedy genius
Part 1 – How it all began “I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin” In the February 1995 college magazine (Screever) I wrote a tribute article to Peter Cook. At the time I didn’t know much about Peter Cook to be honest. I’d gone home for lunch on the 9th…
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THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS: THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NINTENDO GAMEBOY IN THE UK
The early 90s was a great time for gamers; the Video Games market crash of the mid-80s was now on the up. Most of the dead weight companies had been liquidated allowing new fresh ideas to enter the marketplace and consumers still had a hunger for video games. Nintendo riding the wave of their success…
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“DON’T PANIC! DON’T PANIC!” DAD’S ARMY CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
I always struggle to answer when anybody asks me my favourite of any movie, genre, book, author etc. However, this comedy show is definitely my all-time favourite. Dad’s Army is a classic sit-com featuring the weekly escapades of a bumbling and mismatched British Home Guard unit during World War II. It was broadcast by the…
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Video Games: From Pixels To The Silver Screen, Is It Finally Working?
With the rise of the popularity of video games since the 80’s, Hollywood has jumped on the band wagon and tried to successfully, and in most cases unsuccessfully, to adapt them into movies. There were films based on the video game genre such as Tron and The Last Starfighter, but nothing of an actual video…
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Star Wars The Last Jedi Review
“THIS IS NOT GOING TO GO THE WAY YOU THINK” This review contains spoilers - lots of them. If you don’t want your enjoyment of The Last Jedi spoilt don’t read it. I will start by saying that this is my opinion – you don’t have to agree, you don’t have to like it. The…
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A WILD AND CRAZY GUY – ROXANNE 30 YEARS LATER
Before I tell you why Roxanne is a perfect comedy film I’ll give you my brief history of how I first got into the work of Steve Martin. “WOULD YOU LIKE TO SMELL THE BOTTLE CAP?” The only film I’d seen Steve Martin in before 1990 was The Muppet Movie as the ignorant, arrogant, condescending…
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Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon.
Sunday 16th July 2017. I'm watching the Men's singles Final of Wimbledon (Federer and Cilic) and I'm getting more and more nervous. Not about the result, I was pretty sure that Fed would win, but about the announcement of the 13th Doctor casting. Lots of reasons to be nervous: I don't want Capaldi to go…
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It Was 50 Years Ago Today….Well It’s 25 For Me
How many times over the next few weeks will we see those lines as a heading to an article about Sgt. Peppers? This is because The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers album turns 50 years old and it’s a play on the opening line of the of the song – “It was 20 years ago today Sgt.…
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We Always Came Back To the Songs We Were Singing – Flaming Pie – 20 Years on.
There are three moments when I was first introduced to the music of Paul McCartney. The first is for every child of the 80s, and maybe after this time, listening to the Froggy Chorus and loving that Rupert the Bear inspired music video. As a child you don’t need to know who Paul McCartney is…
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