Shoot the Glass

Not having seen this has, for many years, been my biggest embarrassment. Truth is, I have seen bits of it, but the universe seems to conspire against me, always coming up with some devilish scheme to stop me completing it. Therefore, I was delighted when I finally made time to see it, and managed to [...]

I am told that this, along with It’s a Wonderful Life, is the movie that gets played most during the holiday season on American TV. Meanwhile, it’s not even available on DVD in Europe. It made me wonder if this was going to be a very American story, and the powers that be didn’t think [...]

The plot description for this movie really couldn’t have appealed to me more. Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant in a Mike Newell movie about life in a theatre in the 40s. Sounds like right up my alley.
So what went wrong? I don’t really know, but somehow it didn’t completely gel, and it turned out to [...]

I had been meaning to see this movie for a while. I had been told it was incredible sad and depressing, which may be why I kept putting it off. I was also told it was a haunting and beautiful story. All these things are true.
The animation is absolutely beautiful, and it’s so refreshing to [...]

No, I’m sorry, this “classic” did nothing for me. Maybe my expectations were too high, maybe I simply waited too long to see it. It felt very messy and the main arguments and ideas were not presented very clearly.
I did enjoy the dystopian future and it’s hard to argue that it’s influential and has had [...]