Category: Reviews

No One Will Save You review: Kaitlyn Dever faces her demons and learns that sometimes people can change

Silence is violence in Brian Duffield’s far from muted alienation romp. (Source: 20th Century Studios)

★★★★★

Writer Brian Duffield followed the 80s Alien movie playbook to a near T with the middling Underwater (2020). His latest, which he also directs, is as much E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – if subverted by noted fan of this film Stephen King.

Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is an anxious homebody rejected by the community of her small Louisiana town. She yearns for connection and community – but be careful what you wish for. Watching her dance alone in the family home, an oasis of calm, we’d be forgiven for thinking her fragile; but woken one night by inhuman sounds downstairs, the course of events that unfold show she’s anything but. Continue reading “No One Will Save You review: Kaitlyn Dever faces her demons and learns that sometimes people can change” →

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Keener than Quinoa: Pompey vs Forest Green Rovers

We got our wires crossed about being allowed to film at Fratton Park for the April 1st Pompey home game. Instead, replicate the action by downing a few beers, doing a handstand, then shaking your phone as you look at these photos.

 

The afternoon began with supporters at The Froddington Arms, so by the time my comrade and I reached the stadium, we had a decent buzz going – which was useful when I had to charm security about the knife I’d forgotten I was carrying. Continue reading “Keener than Quinoa: Pompey vs Forest Green Rovers” →

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My Books in a Shop

‘Don’t worry,’ I said, taking photos, ‘No one reads my blog anyway,’ and she laughed like I was joking.

 

My God, how is it almost May?

Well, a lot’s happened since I last posted here. The Omicron variant kicked our booster shots in the teeth, then all the armchair epidemiologists became experts in Russian/Ukrainian relations and the Tories ramped their brand up to 11, lying under oath and smirking at our grief.

Keep it light, Parlett. This is supposed to be an advertisement.

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What Fresh Hell is Woman? Part One

Back off, man – I’m a Scientist.

 

So here I am, enjoying this nice Dark Horse Malbec from Commiefornia as the world burns and coughs and shouts itself horse enough to require deworming. It’s a lovely bottle of red – good and rich, a nice return to that thick spicy flavour other budget Malbecs miss. Still quite a way off from better, more developed examples though and at seven quid I’ve had better. Bit flat with the aftertaste as well. In its defence it’s slow and relaxing, lending one to thousand-yard stares in the supermarket car park pondering the reasoning behind releasing the new Ghostbusters movie during Transgender Awareness Week.

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Does Rosé Turn You Gay?

Graham Norton’s Own Rosé and Kylie Minogue Rosé.

 

Britain is a completely normal island littered with people who’ll bark at you their unsolicited opinions on the way you look, act or talk. I grew up hearing a whole bunch of wild shit that’d get me cancelled for repeating online yet sometimes you’ll still hear it blowin’ in the wind.

Kids whose dads used to sucker punch weirdos like me in the back of the head are more progressive now than their fathers. They’ll still call you a name for not dressing like them or having the same haircut, but where daddy shouted, “Queer!” while running away, baby keeps his hands in his pockets and calls you a faggot to your big fat faggoty face.

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Ceci N’est Pas Une Wine Review

Anomalie du chien de vin.

 

It has been brought to my attention that my last two ‘reviews’ veered quickly away from meaningful critique and seemed more preoccupied with my own general malaise. Do please allow me to make recompense with this humble submission.

France is a country, known for many years as a producer of wines such as red and white. The best bottle of French wine I ever had came from a petrol station just outside of Paris. Everything since then has been a disappointment – but let’s try to just stick with wine for now.

An old French friend once taught me that the quality of a bottle is related to how far you can stick your finger into the bottom. True or not, I still use that as an indicator to this day. In retrospect she was probably just flirting with me.

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Sober October?

Yes, that is a Brexit 50p.

 

If you’ve seen the news you’ll have learned that Britain is only ever a gallon of petrol and a wiped arse away from barbarism.

Due to a baffling shortage of workers, we’ve got soldiers on the streets delivering fuel to petrol stations – it’s a presence that will hopefully have women at last feeling safe from the police.

In what is hopefully the tail end of a pandemic reported to have killed almost 160,000 in the UK – not including the terrifying number of excess deaths – it’s still hard to watch global news and imagine the past eighteen months were anything other than dinner and cocktails before life takes us home and stealth fucks us over the dirty dishes in the sink.

So I went to Asda. Back to the performance art of masked shopping among the maskless.

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My God, it’s Full of Plums: A Wine Oddity

I realised I hadn’t posted anything in a while and felt I had to justify the domain mapping fee to myself somehow. So nothing new about book three yet. Here’s some mediocre snobby trash about wine instead.

 

You ever feel like you’re living the radio edit of your life?

I’d joined up to another one of those lockdown wine subscription things on a trial and funnily enough – considering how a friend is planning on moving there – it turned out to be Romania month.

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