The man who suffers does not suffer merely because of the pain, but because that pain is a reminder of what is lacking in himself and in the world. Suffering arises from the experience we all have of looking at ourselves and the world, and thinking “it should not be this way”. So,...
Translated by Eric Sutton “Sire, the luck of war.” “So we call it. But what is it? While I am watching one gate, Mayenne enters by another. He approached by the bridge; by my orders it was to be cut, but had not been. Such a luck of war. I have a suspicion that matters...
I never thought of Anna Kendrick as a quality film director or even a director. Her most notable acting role was Up in the Air in 2009 and I had nearly forgotten about her until watching the Netflix film Woman of the Hour (2023) in which she stars and directs. She impressed the hell...
The Embraer 190 aircraft was supposed to fly north-west from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the city of Grozny in Chechnya in southern Russia, but instead diverted far off course across the Caspian Sea. Azerbaijani government sources have said that the plane was attacked by a Russian Pantsir-...
a method I have always enjoyed in both professional and amateur productions. And about that term, amateur, I always find there is nothing of the sort. These are professional performances by people who pay and turn up for the pleasure. And that pleasure and commitment always gives impressive re...
Commonsense does not permit me to show all my cards, but rest assured, much truth has come out in the wash at Five Fords; the first three years revealed, and I could have moved on to addressing the other sham public inquiries, local and national; but some of those related to the vict...
Commonsense does not permit me to show all my cards, but rest assured, much truth has come out in the wash at Five Fords; the first three years revealed, and I could have moved on to addressing the other sham public inquiries, local and national; but some of those related to the vict...
I admit to ‘only’ enjoying stories in which I can identify with a character (often the most unlikely ones at that – I wonder what that says about me) but what I ‘seem’ to crave and ‘like’ the most are those which I can, and have often, used as “examples” (lac...
I have a memory of my father when I was very young driving to Sears in the yellow Dodge van that he got rid of by the time I was six or seven. It was a Saturday and it was raining hard, and he stopped at the side of the road to help another man whose car had gone into the...
I can attest that in 1995, this was a stunning cliffhanger for eight-year-olds everywhere. But then…Mortal Kombat: Annihilation(1997), one of the worst films of the late ‘90s, happened. Meanwhile in the 2021 film, we havea much more satisfying deathfor its villain when Scorpion returns...