“In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn’t want to share, they went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever”. Only nowadays, we have…

There is a thing about great stories: they contain intensely personal moments that anyone can deem their own, and form a representation of the full work; a thumbnail, if you like. A novel condensed into a monologue, the world reflected in an inverted dewdrop. …

The movie is directed by Roman Polanski, a french director who has been evading American justice for close to 50 years now, on the charge(though apparently the charge-sheet was never filed, but the arrest-warrant is still valid) of raping a minor. His movies are no longer released in the US…

UnGreat Films 4: Cat on a hot tin roof(1958) A purple eyed wife asks her blue eyed husband to dress up for his dying dad’s birthday party. The crippled husband pours himself another drink. He is angry. At her? We might think, but no. At himself? Yes, but he doesn’t…

An appreciation(not a critique) of PT Anderson’s Phantom Thread, originally written on 6th Feb 2018. Hello Hello! I went to see Phantom Thread tonight. A little deliberation, a little fright; a couple of flights, of stairs. I reached huffing puffing & hollowed. …

I got into TG from watching YouTube videos of their stupid challenges, and that stupidity kept me hooked through to the Amazon Series TGT, which is just the same show with a bigger budget and a worse tent. One of the features of their travel is the absence of them…

In a Lonely Place is a 1950 American Noir film starring Humphrey Bogart(the one from Casablanca) and Gloria Graham’s eyebrows(the rest of her is in a supporting role). It’s about a murder mystery in which Bogart is a suspect, but that is the backdrop to the real story of a…

It’s not hard to guess that I would be a Daniel day Lewis fan. Who isn’t ? So to complete his pack, I watched The ballad of Jack and Rose. It’s the story of an ex-hippy who was the last person still living in a commune in a small island…