Author: robdeb
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Gilda (1946)
Argentina to me is something I only know of through the Falklands. An 80’s impact that revolves around Thatcher needing a war proving he need for Greed and Simon Weston coming back proving our capacity for Grace. The setting as such as some sort of ersatz Casablanca in the 40s is something I have great…
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The Killers (1946)
fiction. the gumshoe character driven, where if you’re not sure what to do, have a dame or a man turn up with a gun in their hands. or the actual mystery. the train leaves two hours after the first one and has less stops could the killer have jumped carriages at MacGuffin vile. and that’s…
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Nosferatu (Dave Eggers)
,one thing I love about cinema: all the goddamn Vampires. For me the ladybird book of horror illustrated edition of ‘Dracula’ set me up for scares and thrills. I have vague memories of the brides in it but mostly the palette and colour of ac of within it. it gave me nightmares for years in…
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Tosca (Metropolitan Opera house) Its all still new to me Opera, I do think i spentd as much time just trying to learn as I do enjoying. Its probably the only format that makes me want to read the synopsis and really know spoilers before hand. But even without them Tosca as a story is…
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Stoker (Park Chan Wook)
Stoker (Park Chan Wook) I find thrillers a mixed bag. I went through a period in the later 90s reading Jill Thompson and Easy Rawlings and several other procedurals—an attempt to be more immersed in noir. I loved studying Hitchcock, but he is a benchmark that flooded a lot of film theory at the time,…
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The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot Within the last week would have been my mother’s birthday, and a few days before that was the anniversary of her death four years ago. Watching a film about a robot learning to be a mother was not on the cards. But then, often, neither is parenthood. For my part, I have…
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Timestalker (Alive Lowe)
TimeStalker, directed by the talented Alice Lowe I do not know Alice Lowe; I have had some small interactions over the years, from the odd tweets these days to the vague memory of her being in the groovy hip clique I created in my head. Swanning in the corner of some suave stylists with double…
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The Outrun
The outrun (Nora Fingscheidt) Addiction. It’s something that evolves and erodes in people. When I say this, it’s not something I feel can be cured, but it moves in like the tides, affected by the nurture of our landscape, the nature of our passion and the turmoil that ebbs and flows. I know for myself…
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les contre d’hoffman
Les contes Hoffman Opera is still a new thing to me. It’s four hours of song and spectacle and two intervals. But those intervals make such a big difference. They change Bollywood and make Marvel better as a stream. Not Hoffman, though. I’ve heard the name but not read the stories. Like Poe, my knowledge…
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A different Man (aaron Shimberg)
A Different Man (directed by Aaron Shimberg, starring Adam Pearson) I have had a relationship with Adam Pearson’s face for years; I should stress that I don’t know the man. I have some tenuous mutals on our feeds who I have not spoken to directly for years, but I have no personal acquaintance with him.…
The Irish Indian Times. 