In keeping with the spirit of Share Your Shame, I’m going to start with a guilty confession. As passionate and engaged with the medium of film as I am, as intelligent and reasonable and considered a person I would like to believe myself to be, I have the occasional failing. Despite all the movie pretensions [...]
Think of all of the great musicals that have ever been released to the cinema. Now rate them. Atop of a lot of lists will be the likes of The Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge, Bugsy Malone, and maybe even Paint Your Wagon. What do these films, and many others of a similar keel, have [...]
If owning a DVD copy of this film was my only sin… I also own the book the film was based on (by Cecelia Ahern). Oh, the shame. And I know you should never – and I mean never – compare the two, I have to mention, with my cheeks already flaming up, that I [...]
Forgive me father for I have sinned…. hear me out. Yes the film sits covered in dust at the back of my DVD collection, but where I think I stand on firmer ground, and I hope you agree. Is the story behind why I spent money on it in the first place. It was a [...]
Some franchises are like faded celebrities. It’s disappointing how far they’ve fallen, and when you see them performing half-heartedly on a bargain Mediterranean cruise, you just feel sorry for them. Ridley Scott’s Alien is, and I think you’d be hard pushed to find somebody who disagrees, one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made. [...]
