Archive for the ‘Cultural issues’ Category
Like movies? Interested in aviation? I have just the films for you.
July 20th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
There are many hundreds for film reviews on my website. But, as someone who is a massive movie fan and has a lifelong passion for aircraft, I have a special section with reviews of 68 aviation films. Check them out here.
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So what exactly does the name of the rock band Steely Dan mean?
July 8th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
Since just before the global pandemic, I have been a volunteer on the Older Person’s Unit of St Thomas’ Hospital in central London. Every week, I talk to people between 65 and 100 about their lives and I can tell you that everyone has a story and I learn a lot about life. So this […]
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A review of the new Australian film “Nitram”
July 7th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
Sadly mass shootings are a common occurrence in the United States, but fortunately Down Under they are rare. This Australian film is based on the worst such incident in the country’s history. It happened in Port Arthur in Tasmania on 28-29 April 1996 when a mentally disturbed loner called Martin Bryant, aged 28 at the […]
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A review of the new film “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
May 23rd, 2022 by Roger Darlington
I’ve been viewing films on a regular basis for some six decades and have clocked up almost 3,000 in that time. This particular one must be a strong candidate for the most weird and wonderful work that I’ve seen. The title itself is marvellous, up there with “Doctor Strange In The Madness Of The Multiverse” […]
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A review of the 2008 movie “The Incredible Hulk”
May 21st, 2022 by Roger Darlington
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was kicked off with “Ironman” in the summer of 2008 and the latest addition to the immensely-successful franchise is “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness” in the summer of 2022. In the intervening 14 years, there have been no less than 28 MCU movies and I’ve seen everyone at […]
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A review of the new movie “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness”
May 8th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
Any film that has one of the words ‘strange’, ‘multiverse’ or ‘madness’ in the title is going to attract my interest and one that features all three in the title is cat-nip to me. Anyway it’s a Marvel movie and I never miss one of these. So expectations were high when I booked an early […]
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A review of a war film with a difference: “The Forgotten Battle”
April 12th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
There have, of course, been numerous films about the Second World War, but this 2020 offering is a bit different: the conflict in question was in The Netherlands, it is a Dutch production, and it is the first Dutch film from Netflix. Inspired by true events, this is a portrayal of the Battle of Scheldt […]
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A review of “Operation Finale”, a film on the abduction of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann
April 6th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
I was 13 when, in 1961, the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann – a major architect of the Holocaust – was tried in Israel and I remember reading about the proceedings in the newspaper. This 2018 film is largely about the operation, conducted by agents of Mossad and Shin Bet, to abduct Eichmann from his home […]
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What is the sacred secret of what women want?
April 4th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
I recently caught up with the 2007 film “P.S. I Love You” [my review here] and I enjoyed this exchange of dialogue: Daniel Connelly: I don’t meant to throw this at you from left field, but what do women want? I mean, I can’t figure it out. They want us to ask; they, they don’t […]
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Have you ever visited – or wanted to visit – the Peruvian site of Machu Picchu?
April 4th, 2022 by Roger Darlington
Well, as this recent article explains, a new academic paper argues that, since its rediscovery in 1911, the site has been known by the wrong name. A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO world heritage site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu – the name of a […]
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