The Dossing Times

Last Christmas my Dad, as usual, got me some reading. Among them was ‘Ghost Writer’. As with when I meet new people, I judged it immediately, relegating it to ‘lazy thriller’. Now while my opinions of people change (if somewhat rarely), my opinion of this book did not change, but in fact degenerated and then [...]

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Despite slushy streets I found myself wanting to walk with more of a swagger on leaving the cinema tonight, trying to carry my umbrella with some air of poise and readiness akin to Robert Downey Jnr’s Sherlock Holmes, so that I could beat up some rougheon in a bowler hat, should one approach me. Guy [...]

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‘A Christmas Carol’ (2009) ***
Whatever tired cynics may choose to say or believe, Christmas should you let it, can restore you. Some 3 years ago, it aches me to say, I was sat in a Christchurch hostel, November shorts, T-Shirt, a slowly approaching New [...]

First Dossing Times Podcast. Tuathal and CK discuss the movies. Up. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The Invention of Lying [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Vampires are everywhere at the moment – TV (as discussed below in my review of ‘True Blood’ below), written fiction (in Guillermo del Toros ‘The Strain’) and don’t doubt that the Twilight sequel will be the biggest movie of the year despite only being released in November. A far less well manicured movie, but one [...]

I’m sure there are tracts of text devoted to rumblings amidst the shareholders of Independent News and Media this week, there is however plenty of coverage stateside following a sudden resignation by the head honcho of Disney and his replacement by a rival. The Disney line-up has been thrown into disarray with Johnny Depp publicly [...]

The unique selling point for ‘District 9′ is worth discussing and having seen the movie is due praise. It won’t ruin the film for you to say to say that District 9 is a movie which indirectly comments on racial and ethnic differences, looking to responses from within communities and from governments. In the opening [...]

Find below the trailer for ‘Zombieland’, which presents itself as a pumped-up ‘Shaun of the Dead’, though seems to aim more for a B-movie vibe, with an upped quota of comedic action and its own distinct brand of quirkiness. Released on the 9 October this is the type of movie that will fall into a [...]

There is no doubting that a Quentin Tarantino movie can be a love or loathe experience – people label him as over indulgent, dialogue heavy, stylised and serving his own geeky interests. But while Tarantino can deliver a reviled movie like ‘Death Proof’ (undeservedly so in this writers opinion) remember that Francis Ford Coppola has [...]