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2019 Film Reviews – 47: Hitsville: The Making Of Motown [dir. Benjamin Turner & Gabe Turner; 2019]
![2019 Film Reviews – 47: Hitsville: The Making Of Motown [dir. Benjamin Turner & Gabe Turner; 2019]](https://dariushalavi.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/0b8ad495-646e-4504-bb60-5c5958e1237a.jpeg?w=1024)
You don’t really need an excuse to spend two hours in the company of some of the most irresistible music ever recorded. But if you insist on having a documentary backdrop to the likes of Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson doing their thing, then Hitsville fulfils the role with great charm. Taking its… Continue reading
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2019 Film Reviews – 18: Green Book [dir. Peter Farrelly; 2018]
I relented. Having read several pieces of convincingly damning criticism of this tale of an Italian-American racist’s journey to open-mindedness – following a stint as a chauffeur and bodyguard to an acclaimed, black musician – I decided my pennies would be better spent on other cinematic fare. But then came that Best Picture Oscar and… Continue reading
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Work Too Hard
More depressing news: Hampshire County Council will cut 1200 posts this year. As if that weren’t bad enough, the latest stats show that 1 in 5 (that’s 20%!) of all 16-24 year olds are out of work. Mass unemployment is never healthy, but mass unemployment amongst one of the most impressionable, malleable sectors of society can… Continue reading
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A Few Fundamentalists
Here are a few moments from a recent conversation with an educated, middle-class, thirty-five-year-old English male. It all started with the Middle East, then moved on to the subject of revolutions and then somehow got on to this: He: The problem is that Muslims are being allowed to take over European countries. They want everything their own way.… Continue reading
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White
I watched Question Time last night and was not surprised to have all my views on the BNP and Nick Griffin totally confirmed. I think everything the party stands for is dangerous and egocentric and I consider Griffin himself to be particularly moronic and reptilian. I was pleased to see that most members of the studio audience… Continue reading
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Brotherly
I think the sum total of the amount of time I’ve spent watching Channel 4’s Big Brother since it began several years ago is… ooh… probably round about twenty minutes. But even I haven’t been able to escape the palaver around the alleged racial abuse of one of its current inmates, the Bollywood star Shilpa… Continue reading
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Thoughts, Too Many
Manic (but enjoyable) ‘summer life’ finally gave way to ‘rest of the year’ life this weekend, which meant that yesterday I sat down and tried to write. Usually when I’m faced with a blank sheet/screen, one of two things happens: 1) my mind goes blank and I can’t think of anything to write about OR… Continue reading
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I am a writer and award-winning perfume critic currently living in the south of England and working on a novel. For my perfume-related writing, please visit Persolaise.com.
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