Pre-Bahrain I spent a fair amount of my weekends in Summer at the cinema. Well, maybe not weekends, but certainly a lot of Friday nights. See, I’m a sucker for blockbuster films. Sure we get them here. But as I’ve mentioned before, films can tend […]
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Film Review: Interstellar
The wait to finally see Interstellar was painful. Painful. Absolutely wracked as to whether I should risk seeing it in the cinema over here in Bahrain, or just wait until it’s “accessible” for me. There’s no such thing as an IMAX cinema here, so there […]
100 movies: Take Shelter
Take Shelter (15/09/12) Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. If you were having wicked crazy dreams of the mother of all storms, would you go and […]
100 movies: Lawless
Lawless (30/08/12) Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by a new deputy and other authorities who want a cut of their profits. Lawless was a film I was looking forward to. I was looking forward to Lawless being that end […]
100 movies: The Help
The Help (11/08/12) An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids’ point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. Playing […]
100 movies: The Tree of Life
Every year I set myself a target, usually of about 100, of films to watch. These are new films. Not new, new films. But films that are new to me. Any time I’ve seen a new one, I post a bit of a brain dump […]