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Hang on a minute, folks!

One ‘it goes with the territory’ minus of being over the age of thirty and being frustrated with some aspect of modern life is that you tend to get dismissed as being an out of touch oldie. I must declare an interest here – I’ve noticed the syndrome, both with my parents and in myself, [...]

February 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Night Manager

In the Rust we have been praise-worthy of seventies drama and critical of the contemporary especially by comparison to Nordic  Noir. However I can only laud BBC’s latest effort for Sunday The Night Manager as an espionage thriller. It is based on a John Le Carre novel but adapted to the [...]

February 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

From Me To You

The title of being ‘the greatest band in popular music’ is a complicated one to award because – inevitably, at some point – subjectivity in the eyes of the beholder (or listener) comes into it: are we talking ‘empirically greatest’, or ‘my favourite ever’? Maybe there’s a [...]

February 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Big Short

The Big Short came highly recommended but by those who worked in and understood the financial world. For those like me who do neither it’s all somewhat confusing. As I understand it, or more accurately as Bob Tickler helpfully explained, American high risk mortgages called sub prime carried [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Modern Garden exhibition/Royal Academy

Whatever the subject matter or the content there is something unsatisfactory about a blockbuster exhibition. Firstly the crowds inhibit any true appreciation of a picture when as many as ten gather around it. Secondly there is the blatant commercialism that ensures you finish up in the museum shop. [...]

February 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

‘Ave yer got a light, boy?’

In the 21st Century the movie and theatre industries – indeed the arts generally – have to deal with all sorts of issues that never troubled the likes of Will Shakespeare. Think of the legislation, rules and received ‘good practice’ on animal cruelty and welfare (‘No [...]

February 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

A typical media issue

We all have aspects of the media, or particular media traits, that annoy us or cause us to flirt with contempt towards the medium … and indeed those involved in the stories it runs. One of my pet hates are pieces featuring some obscure university research team that has apparently spent years of [...]

February 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Casablanca

One of the tenets of the arts section of the Rust is that if something is popular then that that does not follow it’s of poor quality.  Thus Melanie Gay advocates Daphne du Maurier as novelist, Alice Mansfield, the painters Ted Seago and Ken Howard, who are not esteemed by the critics but [...]

February 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Spotlight

Readers will remember that I’m no fan of the American film industry since the original Star Wars. It’s too dominated by the creation of brand and sequels to avoid the $100m needed to market a new film; by a cartel of actors who demand a percentage of the box office for their [...]

February 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alice in Pantoland/ Dome Studio Brighton

Alice in Wonderland is the production of Brighton’s Alternative Adult Pantomime founded by the late Brian Ralfe in 2002 who passed away in March of this year. It’s best described as gay burlesque. It’s a trip through Pantoland with most of the well known characters – [...]

January 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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