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January
January January often arrives like an unwelcome guest — cold, broke, and full of expectations. This poem imagines him sitting down anyway.
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Movie Review of the Year!!
Christmas Crackers to catch up on and 3 Turkeys to avoid, Part 1 So, Christmas is over – a big Woo Hoo (!) or “Oh no!”, which largely depends on whether you are over 13 or not. Xmas, at least in our Western European culture, is a great leveller in that we all feel the same emotions and go through universal experiences – feelings stuffed with turkey and still hoovering / cleaning up mysterious stuff from the carpet. All of us running on the remnants of Baileys and Christmas pudding. Let us keep up / resuscitate the jolly holiday feeling with the 1st wordsbywright.com Movie Review of the Year!! Hooray!!…
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Folk Me – I’m Getting Old
There are many signs that you’re getting old, my friends. That sighing/groaning noise you make as you get on or off the sofa. Creaking bones and muscles as you mentally hark back to the Good Ol’ Days when you used to run up the stairs two at a time instead of an arthritis-like trek. The shock of spotting that grey hair or, worse, pube. Finding yourself, inexplicably, going willingly to a garden centre or Homebase on a Sunday — I did it today, and I am only 55! Britpop, BBC6 Music & Thinking I Was Still Cool On to the music link. I would like to think that I am…
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Movie Review: Bugonia (2025)
“ The workers gather pollen for the Queen…but the bees, they’re dying…and that’s the way they planned it…to make us the same as the bees” Bugonia (2025) DIRECTOR: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster (2015), Poor Things (2023), Kinds of Kindness (2024) WRITER: Will Tracy MAIN CAST (CHARACTERS): Emma Stone (Michelle Fuller), Jesse Plemons (Teddy Gatz), Aidan Delbis (Don), Stavros Halkias (Casey), Alicia Silverstone (Sandy) Weirdness and Eccentricity in Modern Hollywood Weirdness and eccentricity seem to be the “new normal” now in Hollywood, and HEY, let’s suck it up! Horror fans, we are already living in a golden age – let’s look at the evidence and consider the downright spooky Weapons (unsettlingly…
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Real Gone – a Halloween song
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Real Gone – a Halloween song
What was it you said, that day at the lake?Before he pushed you in.What was it you felt , that day at the party?As she sharpened the knife.What was it you saw, that you shouldn’t have?As they whispered and plotted in that little,dark alley.Who was you touched as you smiled, self-content?As I left my seat, club in hand.What was it you wore , on that wintry, icy day?As he followed , black hearted, behind.And what is it like , on the other side of now?Gone.
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Movie Review: Bugonia (2025)
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Halloween Story- The Touch
He didn’t have to turn his head to know it was 2.37 a.m.—the same every night: the nightmare, the waking, and the hopeless attempt to get back to sleep. Outside, the wind moaned like a dying breath, and the frost crept across the windowpane like a web of ice.
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Dog Day Afternoon: Fifty Years of Heat, Tension, and Heartbreak
During a blistering New York summer, a desperate man walks into a Brooklyn bank and tries to rob it. But this isn’t just any heist—it’s the beginning of a standoff that grips the city, exposes the media’s voyeuristic hunger, and reveals the unexpected humanity of a criminal who, despite everything, wants to be loved. Fifty years on, Dog Day Afternoon still burns with raw emotional intensity and relevance. Released in 1975, just a year after Chinatown and The Godfather Part II, Sidney Lumet’s film struck a nerve with a public already disillusioned by Watergate, Vietnam, and political corruption. America had entered what novelist Joan Didion described as “the era of…
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The Rhythm of Life – Music & Meditation
Discover how sound can deepen your meditation, boost calm, and connect you to your inner rhythm through mindful, intentional listening.
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Movie Review -One Battle After Another (2025)
“The message is clear. Free borders, free bodies, free choice and free from f@*$ing fear.” Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio (Bob Ferguson – “Ghetto Pat”),Sean Penn (Col. Steven J. Lockjaw), Chase Infiniti (Willa Ferguson),Teyana Taylor (Perfidia Beverly Hills), Benicio del Toro (Sensei Sergio St. Carlos),Regina Hall (Deandra) Written/Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Strap yourself in because One Battle After Another is a wild roller coaster ride of a movie. It starts with a bang (you will see what I mean) and keeps banging all the way through its 2 hours and 41 minutes run time. The trade-off for the numb posterior and bursting bladder is the enjoyment to be had in this…
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Movie Review: I Swear (2025)
Starring: Robert Aramayo (John Davidson), Maxine Peake (Dottie Achenbach), Shirley Henderson (Heather Davidson), Peter Mullan (Tommy Trotter) Written / Directed by: Kirk Jones (Released: 10th October) If you are offended by swearing, do NOT go to this movie and just walk on to the next screen , my friend. But if you want gritty, heartfelt performances and an empathetic true-life story, watch on. I Swear is a biographical drama based on the real life of John Davidson; a Scottish man diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome in his mid-teens. That should not have been a problem, but we are talking about a movie set largely in 1980s Scotland. It explores how John…
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Raffles & Bunny – The Hyde Park Hullabaloo
Characters – Raffles regulars (and the Dublin Amateur Players* who keep breaking through- they have issues. All have strong Dublin brogue) A.J. Raffles (mid 30’s) – Suave, confident & charming, clipped British public-school accent. The OG Amateur Cracksman, gentleman thief with a flair for drama, nonchalance of a poet ,cunning of a thief. Quotes poetry & cricket stats in equal measure, elegantly dressed (ALSO is , Flann O Cobbler , most experienced actor of the DAP *, suspicious of Brien’s intentions regarding his girlfriend Shelia, see below) Harry “Bunny” Manders (mid 30s) – Loyal, naive, the ideal comic foil and narrator, British public-school accent ,devoted companion, eager to please but…
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Movie Review 3 : Bring Her Back (2025)
“I’ve spoken with an angel. It showed me how I can be a mother again…Some people believe the spirit stays in the body for months after death.” Starring: Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Sally Hawkins, Jonah Wren Phillips Written by: Danny Philippou & Bill Hinzman Directed by: Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou Bring Her Back follows the harrowing journey of Andy and Piper, two siblings who, after the sudden death of their father, find themselves in the care of Laura (Sally Hawkins), a seemingly kind foster mother with a tragic past. As they settle into their new home, they uncover unsettling truths about Laura’s intentions. The film delves into themes of…
