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The Dead South
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Music
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Listening to them a bit lately, looking for some good new music, when coming across the credits after one of their videos I discover they're from Regina. Who knew? I mean, the name of the group, bluegrass and beards, I was thinking Alabama. Good job, they're punching well above their weight...
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And if you liked that try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i95sEX1YBlA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7SNjCgjICY
The Shape of Water
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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A charming fairy tale, well told. Not extraordinary, or exceptional, the Oscar Nominations told you that, but sometimes you just need a break from "Film as Art" and this was it.
Oldboy, Holy Motors, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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I've been using my time off to catch up on a few movies. I'd like to say "wisely", but the movies, they've been all of them, every one, the stuff of nightmares.
The first, Oldboy, Korean, dark, I mean way-dark, black-dark, pitch-dark...Good, well acted, some great ideas, but - fucking hell, was it ever dark.
The second, Holy Motors, a variety of Tableaux set in and around Paris. Moments of brilliance, and - of course - of bleak and unrelenting darkness. And a curious - Theme? - if that's the word, brilliantly acted, the fuel of nightmares. I'm still not well, coughing, waking up in the night, I don't need this...
And finally The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Brilliant, savage - and - hey, do I gotta say it? Dark. Fucking bloody hell. In this instance, however, I forgive the darkness, the movie - the most linear and understandable of anything I've watched for a while, but still not even a ray of sunshine - that said, admirable in it's cinematography, execution, in the darkest of personal moments, clipped dialogue ...
...but at the moment I need to find something a bit lighter, a bit more cheery, not necessarily mindless - do the two always have to be mutually exclusive? But I'd like something that rather lifts my spirits for a change, I'm open to recommendations...
Yoann Bourgeois "La mécanique de l'histoire"
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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The Mechanics of History...
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