Category Archives: Film

Peter Sallis and a “nice bit of Wensleydale cheese lad”

Posted on June 5, 2017 by kindadukish

Peter Sallis the actor best-known for voicing Wallace in Aardman Animation’s Wallace & Gromit  and starring in long-running BBC sitcom Last Summer Of Wine, has died at the age of 96. “It is with sadness that we announce that our … Continue reading →

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Hidden Figures……..a must see film and stunning performance from Octavia Spencer

Posted on March 1, 2017 by kindadukish

I made one of my relatively rare forays to the cinema last week to watch the new film “Hidden Figures”. I was little half hearted about the film as the thought of another “revisionist” story from history, mixed with the … Continue reading →

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“Arrival”……..sci-fi with brains

Posted on November 15, 2016 by kindadukish

  Yesterday I made one of my infrequent visits to the local multiplex cinema in Huddersfield to see the latest “sic-fi” film doing the rounds at the moment. I do not go very often these days because I seem to … Continue reading →

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David Byrne……………a unique talent

Posted on August 25, 2015 by kindadukish

It was the 1980 album “Remain in Light” and the single “Once in a Lifetime” that first alerted me to the band Talking Heads and caused me to explore more about their music. The album has subsequently gone on to … Continue reading →

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Vangelis……..and the Greek “Bolero”

Posted on August 21, 2015 by kindadukish

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943), professionally known as Vangelis is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, rock and orchestral music He is best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots of Fire … Continue reading →

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…………….part two!

Posted on May 18, 2015 by kindadukish

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was an American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of Han actors, including Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. On a recent trip to Dunham … Continue reading →

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I am not a number, I am a free man!

Posted on March 24, 2015 by kindadukish

Back in the 1960s a TV series started that created a sensation, nothing of the like had been seen before and it quickly became a “cult programme” particularly amongst the young. It was on once a week on Friday nights … Continue reading →

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Cumberbatch or Redmayne………….race for the Oscar!

Posted on February 4, 2015 by kindadukish

No one can have missed the “Oscar” PR campaigns doing the rounds in support of Benedict Cumberbatches performance as Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game” and Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” I have seen both … Continue reading →

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That is Lancashire………….you must never go there!

Posted on December 4, 2014 by kindadukish

I occasionally make reference in my blog to the fact that although I have lived in the “white rose” county of Yorkshire since 1978 I still hold on to my Lancashire (Red rose)  “roots” and consider myself a proud “Lancastrian”. … Continue reading →

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2001, A Space Odyssey………..the greatest Scifi movie, ever!

Posted on November 30, 2014 by kindadukish

  Stanley Kubrick’s epochal sci-fi epic returns to the big screen as part of the BFI’s Days of Fear and Wonder series, and after all these years it remains a trip well worth making. Expanding on Arthur C Clarke’s short … Continue reading →

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