. . . but everyone says the party started after I left. By John J. Kelly Wordsworth famously observed that poetry takes its origin from ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ Art is emotion harnessed to artifice. The artist gives the impression of spontaneity. The work aims to evoke powerful emotions, but it is a representation of idealised [...]
Category Archives: Reviews
God in one ear, Cheney in the other. "W" The Movie.
November 17, 2008 – 8:17 pm
George W Bush comes off lightly in the new biopic, ‘W’ to the dismay of pinko liberals everywhere. Oliver Stone was scripted to serve up a tale of a neocon Golem, spoiled rich son of a former CIA Director turned one-term President whose legacy was that he did not annex Iraq. He fixed the polls in [...]
Do you think I would leave you dying?
November 16, 2008 – 3:11 pm
YES . . . . if you were Bobby Sands or the seven other 1981 IRA hunger strikers. This 1979 BBC clip aimed to show that the Iron Lady was an old softy at heart. Mrs Thatcher on Two Little Boys achieves the opposite effect. Not quite as harrowing as Hunger, the first feature from [...]
It does not have to be that way
November 4, 2008 – 10:49 am
THUS aims to consolidate fresh thinking about life-changing issues, bridge the truth gap left by today’s political and business coverage and add fact-based appraisal of the best forward thinking from a host of informed sources. It will do so with good humour, optimism and empathy. You should not need a PhD to understand or enjoy [...]