I went to see "We need to talk about Kevin" on Monday night at Swansea Uni. The cinema was full of tweedy, intense people looking to engage anyone within earshot in a conversation about "the message" Shriver was trying to convey with her story, the startling cinematography, particularly the face in the bowl of water [...]
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We need to talk about Kevin: a grim, unfulfilling experience. For some.
Posted: 18th January 2012 by Martyn in Film Reviews, Industrial Class IronyTags: Ashley Gerasimovich, Eva Kevin, Ezra Miller, Lionel Shriver, Lynne Ramsey, Mission Impossible, Swansea Uni, Thank God, Tilda Swinton
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What a long way we’ve come
Posted: 17th January 2012 by Martyn in Racial equalityTags: Aretha Franklin, Conservative Party, day, Jimi Hendrix, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Politics, Seema Malhotra Dec, Wales
This is a newspaper advertisement from the 1960s. The open and naked prejudice of it is staggering in this day and age, but it was still only forty odd years ago. Today, of course, the modern Conservative Party has moved on from this and now embraces a non-discriminatory stance. I’m glad about that, not just [...]