With my wife’s permission,
I spent the late winter Saturday evening
in the memory of embrace and arms
of my first love before
heading back home, cold feet
but undoubtedly a warmed heart.
I have neglected her, since she came
into money. For nine
and half long years I watched, hiding
my interest, trying hard
to forget just what this lady
in sheer blue had once meant to me.
I had loved her
when it seemed no one else would,
when she ragged, poor, shambolic,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd, Andy Serkis, Oscar Issac, Laura Dern, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kelly Marie-Tran, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Daniels, Warwick Davies, Frank Oz, Jimmy Vee, Joonas Suotamo, Adrian Edmondson, Mark Lewis Jones, Hermoine Corfield.
You can’t keep a good franchise down; lord knows they tried with the release of the much maligned episodes one and two of the Star Wars saga, but no matter what, eventually the licence to entertain and print money, sell merchandise and hopefully the true point of making a good story realised on screen will see the series continue.
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There is a reason why some certain aspects of history resonate more than others in the minds of those who choose to look back, for they are normally the ones who see the parallels in the present day, they are the ones who can see just how a natural course of events in the modern era have been shaped by what has gone before and as one political leader is character assassinated or thrown to the wolves, so too does a King or Queen of old resemble that putsch or stab in the back.
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The darkness can be a place where the consuming nature of humanity can lead to the feeling of inaction, where apathy escorts the soul to its own inevitable destruction. If though you can even see the light, a thin wedged margin just within arm’s reach and offering a sense of comfort, then to walk that line is feel perhaps the most alive, where Inertia is handed a throbbing beat and a pulse in which to feel the spark glow red hot and burn with joy.
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You don’t have to look to far to see how the season invoke the passions of the poet and would be lovers in equal force.
Spring brings that tantalising prospect of hope, the return of order from out the darkness that the Romans largely clumped together and then prayed to their gods that the first flowers would return, summer is the full flush of lust and heat, provoking the poet to seek out wooded glades and spy on the green leaves dancing in anticipation, winter is the time when huddled together before a fire and the thrust of conversation takes place and leaves autumn, with trees that shed their inhibitions and the cinematic landscapes that catch the eye.
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It was once a cry of exasperation that would be uttered by a spouse or a parent, that the almost degrading verbal punch to the senses of “You need to live in the real world” is often the last resort of an argument from those who have jealousy in their heart because they have forgotten how to dream of a better life, that they want you to be as miserable as them. Now it seems that more people are finding ways to make their lives better, not by dreaming and succeeding but by hiding away, a virtual authenticity on every corner, a world where you can be the hero without leaving the house.; welcome to The New Reality and despite the allure, it is not a pretty sight.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti, Gerry Becker, Leslie Lyles, George Shapiro, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter Bonerz, Patton Oswalt, Courtney Love, Jerry Lawler, Jim Ross, Jeff Conway, Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Christopher Lloyd.
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Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julia Walters, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Graham, Leanne Best, James Bloor, Frances Barber, Kenneth Cranham, Isabelle Laughland, Peter Turner, Tom Brittney, Edward Bourne, Susanne Bertish, Joey Batey, Tim Ahern, Luana Di Pasquale.
Imagine, if you can, what it would be to be in a relationship with someone who was once considered Hollywood royalty, who held audiences captive with their ability on screen and who made crowds love them. It is surely impossible to believe such a thing could happen, even if you do read about in the gossip columns and the world of social media, it is almost too good to ever believe it would happen to you.
In a lonely place,
where no one talks
and no one smiles,
no one calls,
no one knocks on the wooden panelled door,
the text alert stays silent,
the interaction on social media
reduced to the barest minimum
contact, more chance of Life
in the hereafter it seems.
A Twenty-First century death,
silent, tumble weed on screen
garners more interest,
just forgotten,
and the worst part is when you get used to it,
then the feeling of memory is taken from you.
Ian D. Hall 2017
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Jay Taylor and Patrick Robinson as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson in Baskerville: Photograph by Ellie Kurttz.
Cast: Bessie Carter, Edward Harrison, Ryan Pope, Patrick Robinson, Jay Taylor.
There is a demonic howl that punctures the thick Devonshire Fog and finds the way to install the first wave of fear in a man’s heart, the moors have the air of the unnatural and spectral feeling its way like spindly fingers through a solid, almost impenetrable web, the hand upon the shoulder, the heavy, phantom breathing of the curse that has weaved its way into the family history is close by and the eyes start to glow blood red, evil and death locked in its slavering, hungry teeth.