Simon Brew Mar 21, 2017
How many of us revisit a film, if it didn't work for us first time around?
A bit of clickbait avoidance. The answer to the question posed in the title is: it clearly depends on the film. But I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Hence this article.
Let’s start, then, with Stephen Fry. In his relatively recent memoir More Fool Me, he spends a welcome chunk of the opening section discussing books, and how memories of books can leak over time. He ties it into Guy Pearce’s character in Memento, thus earning a few extra geek points from the jar.
But there’s a sentence he writes, on page 15, that struck me at the time, and has struck me regularly since. For he simply recalls that “A friend of mine pointed out recently how absurd it was that people reread...
How many of us revisit a film, if it didn't work for us first time around?
A bit of clickbait avoidance. The answer to the question posed in the title is: it clearly depends on the film. But I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Hence this article.
Let’s start, then, with Stephen Fry. In his relatively recent memoir More Fool Me, he spends a welcome chunk of the opening section discussing books, and how memories of books can leak over time. He ties it into Guy Pearce’s character in Memento, thus earning a few extra geek points from the jar.
But there’s a sentence he writes, on page 15, that struck me at the time, and has struck me regularly since. For he simply recalls that “A friend of mine pointed out recently how absurd it was that people reread...
- 3/20/2017
- Den of Geek
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Yes, it’s annoying when the UK weather is rubbish, but is it really grounds to lodge a complaint with the BBC?
Imagine you’ve been wronged by a TV show. Some inaccuracy, or omission, or annoyance has caused the irksome weevil of discontent to crawl through your television and burrow underneath your skin. You can’t rid of it. After days of muttering under your breath and scribbling beards and fangs all over the Radio Times, it’s still there. Nothing will soothe you. You're left with only one choice.
It’s time to lodge a complaint.
If that complaint relates to anything other than Editorial Standards, it may be passed up to the BBC Trust’s Complaints and Appeals Board (Cab), the final arbiter on general grievances since 2011. And thanks to BBC transparency, such complaints are available, anonymously, to see online.
A trawl through the...
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Yes, it’s annoying when the UK weather is rubbish, but is it really grounds to lodge a complaint with the BBC?
Imagine you’ve been wronged by a TV show. Some inaccuracy, or omission, or annoyance has caused the irksome weevil of discontent to crawl through your television and burrow underneath your skin. You can’t rid of it. After days of muttering under your breath and scribbling beards and fangs all over the Radio Times, it’s still there. Nothing will soothe you. You're left with only one choice.
It’s time to lodge a complaint.
If that complaint relates to anything other than Editorial Standards, it may be passed up to the BBC Trust’s Complaints and Appeals Board (Cab), the final arbiter on general grievances since 2011. And thanks to BBC transparency, such complaints are available, anonymously, to see online.
A trawl through the...
- 2/2/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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The Movie Doctors is more than Wittertainment jumping from the airwaves to the printed page. Here's our review...
How do you write a review about The Movie Doctors, by Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode? Well, you just…, ah I suspect many of you got there first.
And if you did, this is your book. A fascinating, broad and beautifully presented collection of arguments, articles, diagrams and disputes that leap from the airwaves of Wittertainment (aka The Kermode & Mayo Film Review on Radio 5 Live/Radio Five/Five Live/we keep forgetting what they're officially called these days) and onto the printed page, there’s plenty that others could learn from this.
For in an era where books for fans of things have a habit of taking that audience for granted, that’s absolutely what The Movie Doctors doesn’t do. Running to over 300 pages, and with sky-high production values,...
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The Movie Doctors is more than Wittertainment jumping from the airwaves to the printed page. Here's our review...
How do you write a review about The Movie Doctors, by Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode? Well, you just…, ah I suspect many of you got there first.
And if you did, this is your book. A fascinating, broad and beautifully presented collection of arguments, articles, diagrams and disputes that leap from the airwaves of Wittertainment (aka The Kermode & Mayo Film Review on Radio 5 Live/Radio Five/Five Live/we keep forgetting what they're officially called these days) and onto the printed page, there’s plenty that others could learn from this.
For in an era where books for fans of things have a habit of taking that audience for granted, that’s absolutely what The Movie Doctors doesn’t do. Running to over 300 pages, and with sky-high production values,...
- 12/4/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Shaun The Sheep: a full length movie feature. Peppa Pig: 15 minutes of new material, and some old episodes. Let battle commence...
Let's start with some history. The first episode of Peppa Pig screened back in 2004. It seems odd, given its proliferation on television and in the children's sections of bookshops, that it's only a decade old (and even then, it doesn't celebrate that birthday until the end of May). Yet ask any parent of a child under 10, and they'll likely know lots about the show. Not least how wonderfully useless Daddy Pig seems to be.
If you need any proof of how seriously we take Peppa around these parts, let this article be exhibit A.
In truth, I really like Peppa Pig. I think it's charming, the characters are fun, and it's a show that's got one of my kids in particular very interested in books from an early age.
Let's start with some history. The first episode of Peppa Pig screened back in 2004. It seems odd, given its proliferation on television and in the children's sections of bookshops, that it's only a decade old (and even then, it doesn't celebrate that birthday until the end of May). Yet ask any parent of a child under 10, and they'll likely know lots about the show. Not least how wonderfully useless Daddy Pig seems to be.
If you need any proof of how seriously we take Peppa around these parts, let this article be exhibit A.
In truth, I really like Peppa Pig. I think it's charming, the characters are fun, and it's a show that's got one of my kids in particular very interested in books from an early age.
- 2/3/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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