12 Years A Slave

I’ve not been terribly good at getting to the cinema recently, but the Oscar nominations last week have focussed my mind. I didn’t want 2014 to be yet another year where I hadn’t seen the winner of the Best Picture Academy Award in advance of the ceremony. Given that until today I had only seen two of the nine nominees…

X-Men: First Class

I have a bit of a strange relationship with the X-Men films. I loved the first one, thought the second was good enough and the third was a big steaming pile of…

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Guy Fawkes

Every British schoolchild knows the lines “Remember, remember the fifth of November; gunpowder, treason and plot” and most probably have a vague knowledge of why we burn an effigy of Guy (or Guido) Fawkes and set off a lot of fireworks on 5th November, the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot…