Author: robdeb

The fall guy Tom Cruise jumps off a cliff and parachutes. Twice. For a man who has criticised non-maskers on the set of the same film, given how everyone needs him for this film, it’s hard watching Simon Pegg’s reaction..especially as he does it again. David Holmes was left paralysed at 25; he was Harry…

Little Mary Duncan Paveling Parents die. It’s a fact. I was at a table watching friends about two years ago. I didn’t say anything, but I knew out of the five of us. Only one still had both. It’s a post-40 fact of life. Little Mary is a scenic sense of a lovely couple living…

Wednesday Shorts. I love short films on two levels. One, the shittest one won’t last long anyway, and two, you really do get to see something new. Wednesday’s unrestricted view had a high bar, and I’ll probably be more anecdotally trying to avoid spoiling the films. My Week with Maisy (Mika Simmons) I never went…

I live with my father, he’s 84. He’s capable and mentally agile. If anything, the proverb that old age is when the son becomes the father and the father becomes the son does miss out on the fact that the son in question will stay up late on YouTube and be stroppy A.F. about the…

Civil War By Alex Garland. One of the cliches of your 40s in the 2020s is this: “I’m too young to feel this old” It is as if rather than the actual hours of graft and strife our parents went through, which got my generation, on a larger scale, a certain level of social support,…

Blood Simple I was once taught about Occam’s Razor, which states that the most direct answer to a question is the best. Of course, this may work in physical situations, considering your resources. But when you are in the mental and emotional realm, you can see that it’s a high-strung life prone to indecision and…

Monkey Man by Dev Patel I find it hard to watch films or review them when they are out for a while. Dev was press offensive on every show, channel four, the one show, and anything he could when it came out. He was a great young man, as one should be when you are…

Back to black, the Amy Winehouse story Mum was a big fan. I just saw the big telly stuff. I bought her the albums from very early on. I was pretty dismissive at the time, I only heard about Amy second-hand, and it was through the car crash porn of the tabloids. I felt better…

Mothers instinct Benoit Delhomme I don’t have children. It’s difficult for me to conceive of the feelings and bereavement that would happen. But I do understand survivors’ grief and anxiety, let alone the question we all face in certain situations: is our intervention merely escalation? Mother instinct takes the world of suburban America and brings…