‘From the cell to the trap shouldn’t take more than twelve seconds. And don’t forget that left lower jaw,’ - Albert
Albert Pierrepoint, lead executioner who hanged more than any other hangman in English history, said in 1974 that ‘all the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder.’ While he later expressed uncertainty about this conclusion, it remains a statement reinforced…
If we forget the assumptions we make, if we accept that what we perceive is all that is - that there is no façade, if we decline the concept of an almighty decider, then our world contains a fact plenty frightening alone: there is no absolute right and there is no absolute wrong. The governance is only what you accept or don’t and the response is only what others accept or don’t. We only allow ourselves to act in a…
The Fence was nailed together by a local pair of hands but it looks too close to being a carbon-copy of some of the wooden panes in the town a motorbike’s ride away to make the most of the space. The production of this film states its independence from the corporate touch. Unfortunately, the tone and content is too much of what we know has come before to allow it to proclaim an independence in that field.
I’ll admit I…
This film is a nature documentary. Possibly, the slowest nature documentary ever dreamt up (and that’s saying something) but - in defence of the near-drag - it is a longitudinal study of life over eons into more than the far future. Even beyond the infinite. So, with the scope of time the footage is collated from in mind, the pacing is maybe justified.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a spectacle, in my opinion, best watched on demand in your head…
