Picturenose

Make believe. Not war.

It’s all over for me this year. I have seen the best British film that will be released in 2008. James always tells me I’m a little slow to criticize movies and I’m inclined to agree – as I’m not contractually obliged to see films I may hate, I tend to like the ones I see. Of course, if it turns out to be rubbish, you can be sure I’ll faithfully report the fact. Anyway, enough of my personal issues – Garth Jenning’s Son of Rambow should win awards by the bucketload. If it doesn’t, there’s no justice, pure and simple. So sure am I it will be successful, I’m going to award it the Picturenose ‘5-Star, Thumbs-Up, A1, All-Round Bloody Cracker of a Movie’ award right here and now. The others are sure to follow.

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Golden shower

In keeping with this reviewer’s general apathy towards the zeitgeist (I haven’t read a single Harry Potter tome, either), I must confess to allowing the Philip Pullman/Golden Compass craze to have completely passed me by.

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