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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Sunshine Cleaning

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

Sunshine Cleaning is a charming, slightly quirky little feel good movie, with the quirk being that these cleaners somehow end up cleaning up after dead people; murders, suicides, the long forgotten and the like. (A nasty job that someone has to do, the bonus featurette on a couple who do this job for Continue reading →

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Whose Side Are They On? by Alan Pearce

Posted on 22 November, 2009 by Stephen Newton — 1 Comment ↓

This weekend Amazon invited me to review Alan Pearce’s Whose Side Are They On? the book to get the angry Daily Mail reader for Christmas, full of short stories of big government gone wrong, often in the most petty ways. It will almost certainly succeed in getting Middle England’s blood boiling. We should Continue reading →

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Alan Bennett’s On the Margin

Posted on 20 November, 2009 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

A mid-60s television series that fell victim to the BBC’s bizarre tape recycling policy, Alan Bennett’s On the Margin is now reduced from six thirty minute episodes to just 47 minutes of audio. This presumably provides it with a degree of mythic status among Alan Bennett fans, promising some insight into the early Continue reading →

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Turner Classic Movies: What’s the point?

Posted on 18 November, 2009 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

Okay, so it’s a rubbish photo, but you will be able to see what I’m getting at. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has a great pitch – ‘TCM celebrates landmark films of all genres from across the decades including Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and Apocalypse Now’ – but ruins the films it shows by Continue reading →

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Alistair Cooke’s Seasonal Letters from America

Posted on 18 November, 2009 by Stephen Newton — No Comments ↓

Each of these seasonal letters from Alistair Cooke is a gem. Dating from 1951 to 2003, they are now doubly impressive as they don’t just take the reader stateside, but back to another time. Just the right length, Cooke’s words are precise and his voice mellifluous. However, the package lets them down. Justin Continue reading →

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