The Wafer-Thin Mint (A review of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover)

You will never see such a beautiful film about the ugliness of the world as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Peter Greenaway has long been dissatisfied with cinema being strictly a storytelling medium, and here has constructed the first attempt to capture the horror of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Remember those school trips to the Tate Modern, or the National Portrait Gallery? There was at least one watercolour, or sculpture, or statue, or piece of modern art that caught your attention because of how disturbing it was, the kind you couldn't take your eyes off of.

That's this film in a nutshell.

... (Review of The Artist)

Reviewing The Artist is a tricky thing. As a film geek, and someone who would quite like to make the jump to full-fledged film critic, this should be my favourite thing ever. It's a throwback to classic cinema, a silent film about silent films. It looks like a silent film, from the lighting used and the softness of the image, to the 1:33:1 aspect ratio used in that era. Even the soundtrack is uncanny, a constant orchestral accompaniment with no diegetic noises. Indeed, The Artist is very, very good. But I may end up further cementing myself into the amateur critic circle because I don't think it's the critical darling everyone else seems to think it is.

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H+ - A short story

As I've mentioned before, I'm studying Creative Writing, and at the encouragement of some, I've decided to post some of the work I've done for it. We'll start by jumping into the deep end with my first creative piece, H+. A speculative fiction piece about the increasing role technology plays in our world. Enjoy.

This seems like an appropriate choice of image.