Lightly Seared on the Reality GrillThis week we have been mainly watching…
Carrie
Stephen King wrote the novel and Brian De Palma adapted it for film. This 2013 version of Carrie brings things forward to a more modern setting and is both very well executed and suitably grim. But I can’t get past the feeling that it’s also all a bit of a pointless rehash of the original story.
Eight Legged Freaks
In general, I’m not much of a fan of horror films, but I do like monster movies. The bigger and stupider the better.
Eight Legged Freaks is a wonderfully big and gloriously stupid monster movie. I loved every minute of it.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
They should have called this Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Broadswords.
There are lots of ways of retelling or re-interpreting the Arthurian myths successfully, but Guy Ritchie’s chronologically confused tale of rebellious geezers is not one of them.
Some Links
Terence Eden doesn’t understand the sacrifices people make for work. Neither do I.
Baldur Bjarnason considers the lifecycle of a tech bubble.
The European elections last week saw a surge in far-right parties and, for Timothy Garton Ash, this is a wake up call: Europe is again in danger.
Election season isn’t over, and the UK has a general election next month. Matt Carr thinks it’s all over bar the shouting and explains why.
With the polls pointing to an unprecedented defeat for the Conservative Party, David Allen Green considers the predicted governing party implosion in historical and constitutional context.
Andrew Marr speculates about what a historic Labour win will mean for Britain and suggests that the bigger the collapse on the right and the bigger the Labour majority, the faster and more dramatic the impact of his government will be.
Kenan Malik points out that far-right policies don’t become palatable just because mainstream politicians adopt them.
Pieter Haeck profiles Bart De Wever, the man who wants to break up Belgium, but first he wants to rule it.
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