Demob Happy

Cuba libra
8/10
I was going to start this post with a summary put down of biopics and it’s many crimes against good filmmaking. From pointless impersonation (’Ali’), to line-towing, officially sanctioned dross (’Ray’), to films of such massive pretension that you suspect the filmmaker to be covertly, deliberately assassinating the credibility of its subject (Oliver Stone’s [...]

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Doing the locomotive with Paul Theroux
8/10
People tend to either love or hate Paul Theroux, and although I can sympathise with his detractors I belong to the former camp. He is an uncompromising author that calls things as he sees them, refusing to romanticise or sensationalise his experiences. Although he comes across as a misanthropist, it [...]

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