Category Archive: Pop Culture

The Anti-TED Talk

After a few months back on the conference speaking/attendance circuit, I’ve had something of a refresher course in the joys of academic meetings and decided it was time to write up the range of feelings — from irritation to rage …

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Place, Memory & Myth: Some Reflections on September 11th

Unless you resolutely avoid reading the news then it can hardly . have . escaped . your . attention that we’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Since I was living in New York at the time …

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Clan of the Cave Bear: Herzog goes 3D

The last sentence I ever expected to hear was “Let’s go see the 3D Werner Herzog film…” [Vanity Fair]   Like everyone who hasn’t managed to steer clear of a theatre entirely for the past couple of years, I’ve seen …

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Twins terrorise New York

I have to admit loving this one — what a way to mess with people’s heads. The background is here. And for a higher-quality version than the one on YouTube, watch this.

Kill the narrator… please?

I’m not sure I’ve ever watched a horror film where I actually hoped that the main characters — and most especially the cameraman — would die. And the longer I watched this rubbish Cloverfield the more painful I hoped that …

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Lost! Please help find missing script-writer

Like many, I remember the original Indiana Jones and, to a lesser extent, the following two flicks with some fondness. They were always a bit lot silly but seemed to know how to hold the line between the miraculous (which …

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