Can't Say Strawberry

When Good Will Hunting appeared on BBC iPlayer last week, I jumped at the chance to watch, knowing that it was somewhere in the IMDB 250 (#198). Truthfully, I wasn’t entirely certain what to expect. Good Will Hunting could be described as a coming of age tale, despite its protagonist being in his 20s. Will [...]

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I knew there would come a point in my mission to educate myself in classic film where I would watch a film and not be able to believe that it’s in my ‘never got around to see’ pile. The Full Monty is definitely one of those films. Now, it’s not actually placed in the IMDB [...]

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It’s amazing how you can have more to say about a truly truly terrible film than you do about the good ones. As you know, I’m trying to educate myself in all things film by catching up on those classics that I’ve never got around to seeing. However last week, instead of watching Saving Private [...]

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Previously, ancient history aside, if you mentioned ‘Gladiators’ to me, I’d probably sigh wistfully and remember those joyful childhood Saturday evenings spent watching grown men and women run about in spandex while poking each other with big bits of foam. Good times. Turns out Gladiator is also the name of the film at #96 on [...]

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Forrest Gump is one of my many, many ‘I’ve never got around to seeing that one’ films – as I discovered last week, there are a LOT of classic films I haven’t seen! But hey, we’ve all got to start somewhere, and I’ve just ticked one off the list! I’m assuming the rest of the [...]

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It turns out I’m horrendously ignorant when it comes to cinema. This revelation started out innocently enough with my admission of never having seen Forrest Gump the whole way through. This led to much ridicule from those present, which reminded me a great deal of the time my Jiu-Jitsu friends found out I’d never seen [...]

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