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  • KILL LIST

    I was persuaded to go out of my cinematic comfort zone to go see a new indie horror movie: a genre that I really loathe.  This British one, the second feature directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he co-wrote with his wife Amy Jump had garnered rave reviews that included ‘The most original, unsettling…

  • EL BULLI : COOKING IN PROGRESS

    El Bulli was a Michelin 3 Star Restaurant on the Catalonian coast of Spain that was the height of excess. Its chef and co-owner Ferran Adria turned what was an unpretentious seaside café into a holy grail for the most serious of foodies. The extremely creative and self-assured Adria led a team of some 42…

  • VODKA LEMON

    There is bleak, and then there is Armenia. It was that  first country to secede when the USSR broke up, and although it gained independence, rural Armenia kept its poverty.  In the south, the land is a blanket of slow each long harsh winter where the daily temperature hovers between -5 and -10C. The opening scene of…

  • CORMAN'S WORLD ; EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL

    When I look down the long list of the hundreds of films that Roger Corman has either directed or produced I have no recollection of seeing a single one of them.  That obviously is not the case because as a teenager growing up in Britain in the 19..’s (well a few decades ago!) I lived…