Spoilers, obviously. What do you expect from a film blog? Dick. The Predator is a surprisingly enjoyable film. It maintains the recent re-injection of humour into action films that started with Deadpool, whilst telling an intricate story that has very few things that make no sense. The latter is surprising. Sense is in short supply […]
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All argument aims at consensus. We might pretend that we’re “establishing the truth”, but all that really means is trying to get people to agree with us. For this reason, arguments between the religious and non-religious concerning religion rarely achieve anything, since both parties are already convinced of basic principles that are incompatible. For example, […]
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Some Like it Hot, the 1959 classic and one of my favourite films as a child, is currently on Netflix in the UK. The film sees two impoverished, male musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon) on the run from gangsters after witnessing a murder in Chicago. Their only chance of escape is by posing as […]
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The terribly titled Wild Wild Country is the best and only docu-series I have ever watched. It tells the classic American tale of a group of settlers who, escaping alleged persecution in their own country, attempt to found a city in the land of opportunity. In doing so, they disrupt the lives of the native […]
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Popular culture is an insight into the culture that created it. But, one or two precious examples are so long running that they also show an insight into how that culture changes. Star Trek is the archetype of such a text. Having a relatively consistent logic (in contrast to Doctor Who, which develops through perpetual […]
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Originally published on my other blog, Small Reason. The philosopher Jacques Derrida once said ‘Inheritance is an act’. At least, I’ve been told he did. I’ve never read it myself, and as much as I care about both people who occasionally read this blog I don’t care enough to go chasing up a reference. More […]
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Originally published on my other blog, Small Reason. I kind of enjoyed Star Trek: Into Darkness at the time, but the Klingons always bugged me in it. Now, I’m not going to go onto some sort of rant about how they look different to the Klingons in the TV shows and earlier films and how it’s […]
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Originally published on my other blog, Small Reason. This post inaugurates a mini-series of Belated Drafts. Basically, I’m working hard on the Ph.D. at the moment, so have less time to work on the blog. So, I have decided to the surprisingly large backlog of posts that I just never got around to publishing. That’s why […]
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Originally published on my other blog, Small Reason. The new Star Trek film is not only a good film, but it is actually an actual Star Trek film.Star Trek: Beyond or Star Trek: XIII or Star Trek 3 or Star Trek: Mysterious Subtitle II, in the words of RedLetterMedia’s Mike Stoklasa “It was like someone […]
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