Alphabet Challenge – Day ‘U’. Today sees us shift back to 1989 and the world of writer / director John Hughes for the family comedy ‘Uncle Buck’. In this film the late, great John Candy plays Buck Russell brother to Bob and uncle to Bob’s three children. Upon the news that Bob’s wife Cindy’s father has had a heart attack,
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As the Alphabet Challenge begins to approach the final few days, we’re taken to the Marvel Universe for ‘T’ – ‘Thor’. In this 2011 comic book action tale, we are transported from Eath into the land of Asgard and a tale based comics set in Norse Mythology. Where brothers Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston), have grown up
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For the next day in the Alphabet challenge, we’re off to India and a film from Bollywood… The 2010 indian film ‘Ishqiya’ (Ishqiya means ‘romantic’ I think), is a dark comedy centres around 3 main characters. The first is Krishna Verma who is married to a local gangster that specialises in kidnappings called Vidyadhar Verma. Very early in the film
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Day 7 of the Alphabet Challenge, and for ‘G’ its the 2014 drama ‘Good Kill’, written and directed by Andrew Niccol (previously of Lord of War, The Truman Show, Gattaca). The film centres on Major Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) of the 61st attack squadron and his small military team that are based in Las Vegas but responsible for operating military drones
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Day 4 in the Alphabet Challenge (Alphabet Challenge) and today is…..Draft Day. Sonny Weaver Jnr (Kevin Costner) is about to have a very trying day. He is general manager of the Cleveland Browns NFL team and is going into his biggest day of the year – draft day. The day in which 224 young players are picked by the 36
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‘Everest’ is based on the true story of a 1996 group ascent of the largest mountain on the planet, led by Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke – recently in the new Terminator movie) of ‘Adventure Consultants’. Hall and his company having essentially invented the Everest tourism industry. Directed by Baltsar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband), the film features Josh Brolin, John
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In the late 1960’s, women working in the seat covering area of the Dagenham based Ford Motor factory were downgraded in terms of the skill level assigned to their jobs and informed that they would receive 15% less money than male worked in the same skill level. The workers opted to go on strike which, for female workers in the
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’99 Homes’ is a 2014 film that is grounded in the post housing market collapse across the US set in 2010, in Orlando, Florida. It’s both written and directed by Ramin Bahrani. It centres on Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a tradesman struggling for paid work and about to his home to the bank having failed to keep up mortgage payments
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The new Danny Boyle film is set behind the scenes of the 3 key product launches for Jobs through his career. The first, in 1984, as he prepared to publicly launch the Macintosh computer. The second in 1988, prior to the launch of the NeXT computer by his new company following his sacking from Apple. The third being the 1998 launch
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“You’re going to be the Eleventh Commandment: ‘Thou shalt not get away with it.” There was a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There was another time, when a different type of lethal animal roamed this planet leaving nothing standing in its wake. These were the 80’s action heroes. Not like the CGI riddled super heroes that we have today, these
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