Adam Roberts has an excellent piece on the Guardian today talking about Jules Verne. He places him into context and discusses more than Captain Nemo. Verne’s novels deal with the every day and the dissonance between technological progress and the human (something often forgotten). This is a theme of Albert Robida (The Twentieth Century) and [...]
Paddington Bear, that travelling doyenne from Darkest Peru found 49 years ago at Paddington Station, has swapped his trademark marmalade sandwiches for Marmite. Sigh. Next he’ll stop being “at a loose end”.
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The Times has a piece on Tarantino about his new film, Death Proof. Perhaps, like Shymalan, Tarantino has made his best movies but I’m still angling to watch Death Proof (though I’d love to have seen the fully version of Grindhouse but hey…). Not sure the Times went in with an open mind as there [...]