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Sharpe: TV’s Greatest Soldier?
As a self-confessed history buff, I have always loved the classic British television series, Sharpe, based on a series of novels by Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe tells the story of Richard Sharpe, a rifleman in the 95th Rifles, South Essex regiment (a fictional regiment of the British Army) who rises through the ranks and embarks on…
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The Exorcist
(William Friedkin, 1973) I vividly remember being sixteen and attending a friend’s birthday sleepover at his house with a group of our friends. My friend, whose birthday it was, insisted on putting on his DVD of The Exorcist and seemed proud of boasting that it was a favourite of his, despite probably being too young…
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Seven Samurai
(Akira Kurosawa, 1954) I had the great privilege of seeing this on the big screen at the BFI Southbank as part of their Japan 2021: A Hundred Years of Japanese Cinema season. I was thrilled by the film with which I was presented. An epic tale of a village in sixteenth-century Japan which calls upon…
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Richard III
(Richard Loncraine, 1995) This is one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen and yet I would also say one of the best. Directed by Richard Loncraine, this 1996 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III relocates the Wars of the Roses action to a dystopian version of 1930s Britain, in which Richard, Duke of…
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No Time to Die
(Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021) No Time to Die, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, is the latest edition in the James Bond franchise. It’s an emotionally hard-hitting ride from start to finish as we see our protagonist, legendary British secret agent James Bond, now retired from his spy days in MI6, re-enter the game on the…
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Hello and Welcome!
My name is Daniel Cummings. I’m a film lover from Hertfordshire in the UK. I recently decided to create this blog so that I can share my passion for film with others by reviewing and writing about film and television. Although my primary interests are historical dramas, world cinema and film adaptations of Shakespeare, I…
Cinema, Film, Action! 