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New Cinematica episode

By Audio, Cinema, Cinematica

Last night Kailey, Simon and I recor­ded Episode 5 of the new Cinematica pod­cast. In it we argue about The Debt, Anonymous and basic­ally agree on The Thing and I Don’t Know How She Does It. I was the only poor bug­ger who saw Conan the Barbarian. There’s news and banter in there too.

Here it is.

I recom­mend you head along to iTunes and sub­scribe so that you nev­er miss an epis­ode. And in a few weeks we’ll be broad­cast­ing each epis­ode live so keep an ear out for that.

Review: Anonymous, The Debt, Beautiful Lies, The Thing, Conan the Barbarian and I Don’t Know How She Does It

By Cinema, Reviews

Economically speak­ing, theatres are a com­plete waste of space. I mean, take a look at the St James or the Embassy and try and ima­gine how many cubicles and desks you could fit in to those huge pieces of prime real estate. Or even bet­ter, how many cars could you park inside them? (Car parks require lower ceil­ings there­fore more floors for the same build­ing height) What kind of fool thinks of con­struct­ing a big empty build­ing simply to shine a light through the middle of it?

Anonymous posterThis kind of non­sense has been going on for cen­tur­ies though as Anonymous, Roland Emmerich’s new piece of spec­u­lat­ive fic­tion, demon­strates. Stretching credu­lity almost as far as Star Trek requir­ing us to believe in faster-than-light speed, Anonymous asks its audi­ence to assume that barely-literate act­or Will Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) was not the author of all those plays and son­nets but instead they were penned by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans) and used as a tool to rile the popu­lace and pro­voke polit­ic­al unrest.

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