Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best Christmas film is, I cite the same handful of movies as my personal picks. Obvious ones: the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street or Capra’s universally loved It’s a Wonderful
So, a few things I’m lumping together here. But all around the theme of Christmastime. In truth it has all become a bit of a pantomime, as we’ll observe. It even features the pantomime villain – in the form of
So, a quick follow on from the post on the Bondi beach terror attack. The
Islamist gunmen opening fire on exclusively Jewish targets on a Sydney beach on the first
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A strange object is in our Solar System and is being closely observed. You’ve probably heard about it. It’d be astonishing if
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to guess probably not. But the fact that this question is even
It was in March 2003 that Britain joined the United States in the illegal invasion of Iraq. As is by now commonly
Soundgarden has just been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. A new album, featuring Chris Cornell’s final work with
The recent War of the Worlds movie was a total flop and has been trashed by pretty much everyone. Some have called
100 years ago, the First World War was a devastating conflict in which many millions of people lost their lives and in which the political, social and even geographical state of the world was changed forever. But, far from being the “war to end all wars”, the consequences of World
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There is something innately fascinating about, not so much the judicial process as a whole, but the institution of the trial itself. That’s why court-room dramas are so popular. From classic films like To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men or even the trial of Kirk and McCoy in Star
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April 30th marked 70 years to the day since Adolf Hitler is recorded by history to have met his infamous end; taking his own life in a Berlin bunker as the city lay in ruins around him, the war lost. The image of a defeated, deflated Hitler confined to his
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About the Orlando Massacre narrative: subsequent oddities and inconsistencies in
The recent Apple Maps picture of an unidentified object in
Americans alone reportedly dump some 35 billion plastic bottles every
As the days have gone on, it has seemed increasingly
If you haven’t seen the music videos for ‘Blackstar’ or
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George Lucas’s final contribution to his epic Star Wars saga
Needless to say, this is my provisional review of The
In a mansion in the fictional Xanadu, a vast palatial
Very few people would deny that Darth Vader is one
With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
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Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to
A statue of the late Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman and rock music
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
A few weeks ago it was the 30th anniversary of