For me Gladiator did not need a sequel. It’s one of my all-time favourite movies, and as much as I didn’t want that movie to end, it came to a poignant and brave conclusion. Yet here we are. Nearly twentyfive years later and of course I’m excited, if cautiously. I remember going to the cinema, back in 2000, and seeing Ridley Scott’s masterpiece. ‘Seeing’ doesn’t do the experience any justice. I saw it, heard it, felt it, experienced it. Man alive; it was, and still is, brilliant.
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Much has been written about the film Here. I mean, not here, but elsewhere. Sadly, very little of it sounds positive. The static camera gimmick, capturing everything that happens in a single spot throughout time, from dinosaurs trampling around it to folk building a house around it so we can see what happens in their living room, seems to have fallen flat with most critics.
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Earworm – a recurring tune that involuntarily pops up and sticks in your mind. Usually they are catchy tunes, popping up spontaneously or triggered by emotions, associations, or by hearing the melody. Do you like earworms? Do you like melodies that hop on the musical merry-go-round in your head and refuse to get off? Oh boy, then Stuart Hancock has got you covered.
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