I love movie from the 1980s. OK spoiler alert, I love movies from a number of decades, the increasingly number of which unsettles me greatly (stop aging body dammit) but movies from the ’80s, when I started going to the cinema without parental supervision, have a special place in Continue Reading
Movie review: The Bookshop
One of the most intoxicating things in life is to watch someone fulfil a long held dream. Years of quietly-nurtured hopes and expectations have come to fruition and while success is not necessarily guaranteed, the fact that the dream has found its way from the intangible environs of the Continue Reading
Fascinated you will be: The puppetry of Star Wars
SNAPSHOT [Puppeteer David Barclay], who adored puppetry since childhood, studied under the legendary Frank Oz and assisted with the Yoda character. When Oz needed to go work on another project, he gave the job to Barclay, who would go on to seamlessly recreate Yoda. Barclay also operated and voiced Continue Reading