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Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Next of Kin Now Available!
Stockdale
Following the success of the movie Oceans which is now in theaters, the 
It?s that time of year again: 
Christina Ricci does not fit the mould of a typical Hollywood actress. It is no surprise to see her playing another ?cooky? character in Mark Palansky?s Penelope. The genre of the film is an adult ?fairy tale? but for me it often leans towards a Disneyesque film rather than a more spiky Tim Burton or surreal lavish Terry Gilliam film.
Where do we have to go? Or what do we have to do to gain total freedom? Freedom away from modern day demands? Freedom away from the vice-like grip of the consumer society? Away from bills, tax demands, pressure from others to succeed in a world of high expectations? We often need time to sort our heads out, the time to make a journey, the time to develop and grow. A young man makes the bold decision to make a journey that ends up with him being at one with nature in a remote and overtly inhospitable part of the world in Into The Wild...
I could be writing this in Spanish. Not due to a sudden flurry of
Spanish intensive courses, but history or rather a sudden storm, the
daring of the English fleet, dictated thus. The Spanish Amada was sunk
and history decreed that the English and the English language would
rule the world, for many years. This is a fact that cannot be denied,
but with much of Elisabeth , it is hard to separate cinematic
invention with historical truth.
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