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2021

January 7, 2021 john hobson Uncategorized
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The Man Who Japed**

November 30, 2020 john hobson Books

By Philip K Dick After reading through the treacle of the first two published SF novels, The Man Who Japed is the first recognisably coherent Dickian work. More a novella than a full length piece,

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The World Jones Made*

November 21, 2020 john hobson Books

Philip K Dick And the project to read all Philip K Dick’s books in chronological order nearly ended with The World Jones Made. I owned a copy in the Seventies and never made it past

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Saint Maud****

October 22, 2020 john hobson Film & TV

Directed by Rose Glass Venturing into the cinema is almost a dance with death so a horror film seems appropriate and Saint Maud will be one of the few highlights of this dreadful year. Rose

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The Trouble with Harry*

October 10, 2020 john hobson #AugustProject, Film & TV

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock The Trouble with Harry is that it isn’t funny. It’s neither black enough of funny enough and no amount of rewriting history will cover up that it stank on release. Maybe

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Radioactive**

October 4, 2020 john hobson Film & TV

Director Marjane Satrapi Despite being based on a graphic novel, Radioactive is a throwback to the worthy Thirties film biopics with Rosamund Pike trying her best in yet another career clunker as Marie Curie. It

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Suspicion ***

October 4, 2020 john hobson #AugustProject, Film & TV

Director Alfred Hitchcock When I first watched this film many years ago, I remember being glad that Cary Grant was innocent of Joan Fontaine’s suspicions about him wanting to murder her. Watching it again and

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Midway ****

September 28, 2020 john hobson Film & TV

Director Roland Emmerich It’s as if the 1970s had never happened. Emmerich serves up an unabashed flag waver for the greatest naval battle of World War Two which seems more suited to a double bill

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