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Two of my closest friends share the same birthday, and the three of us have wanted to see some art together for a while. So, for their united special day earlier on in the year, I gifted them tickets to the Frida Kahlo exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, titled ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Herself […]
Read More FRIDA KAHLO: MAKING HER SELF UP AT THE V&AAnother week down of my 2018 challenge, and this week’s theme was… A film you’ve been meaning to get around too but have never watched Now, I currently have a film to-watch list as long as my arm; ranging from new releases to old classics. There are a few that are in my eyes, top […]
Read More DJANGO UNCHAINED: 2018 FILM CHALLENGEToday is World Fashion Day and to celebrate, I have complied a definitive list of the ultimate film fashion icons – which has become one of the most awe-inspiring yet simultaneously envy enduring posts I’ve written for my blog yet. See if you can hold back on that jealously too – here’s the final list. […]
Read More WORLD FASHION DAYBack on track with week thirty three of my 2018 film challenge and this week we’re looking at…. A film with nice music Nice is a bit of an odd word choice here, so I’m just taking it that they mean ‘good’. And who better than Bob Dylan? This week, I watched I’m Not There. […]
Read More I’M STILL HERE: 2018 FILM CHALLENGEIt’s week thirty two of my 2018 film challenge and this week brought us… An LGBT film First off I’d like to note that I own this week’s film on DVD, and it’s available on Netflix BUT I’m away for the week at my Dad’s; forgot the DVD and he doesn’t have WiFi. So, I […]
Read More PRIDE: 2018 FILM CHALLENGEIt’s four days since my play finished, and the post show blues are hitting hard. So much so, that I am reminiscing on films that I have seen that feature characters performing a show. Wonder Dir. Stephen Chbosky 2017 Yes, on paper this film is about a little bit with severe facial disfigurement but what […]
Read More THEATRE IN THE MOVIESToday is my half birthday, a day which I’ve always noted for no reason other than the novelty. A few weeks ago, Jumpcut Online challenged their Twitter followers to list their favourite films beginning with letters of their name and today I’m going to finally take them up on it, just to make the whole […]
Read More MY NAME IN MY FAVOURITE FILMSFor NO reason whatsoever, today’s post is going to be a ranking of various adaptations of the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It was a tough call, but a clear choice for number one… SEVEN. ROMEO & JULIET Dir. Carlo Carlei 2013 This one was such a disappointment. While I admire telling […]
Read More ROMEO & JULIET ADAPTATIONS RANKEDI am finally catching up on my 2018 film challenge, and week thirty one’s belated theme was… A film with a female lead I’ve gone for a recent release I missed at the theatres but picked up on DVD a month or two ago in one of those “I’m sad and need to buy films” […]
Read More INGRID GOES WEST: 2018 FILM CHALLENGEIt (was) week thirty of my 2018 film challenge, and that theme was… A film about a historical figure. So, I’m turning to a film that has been sitting unwatched in my DVD pile for many years: Coco Before Chanel. The 2009 film by Anne Fontaine tells the early stages of the now infamous designer […]
Read More COCO BEFORE CHANEL: 2018 FILM CHALLENGE
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