I've always admired, from afar, the film fanatic and critic Mark Kermode. I remember his glossy rockabilly hair on TV as a kid and getting confused between him and the drawn out Mark Cousins with his confusing inflection. Sorry Kermode.
However it wasn't until recently that I've started to seek Kermode's film chatter out. A director friend put me on to his BBC film blog, saying it was the only one worth looking at. He may have gone gray but there is still something spirited about his film stance, without being a hater. Plus he knows a thing or two about horror writings...
Although he's not a Star Wars fan, which he regards as 'a gross infantalisation of the dark hearted 'serious' sci-fi.' But no one is perfect. And to be fair, as ingrained as Star Wars is in my childhood, looking at the three prequels as stand alone sci-fi films, there's not much under the surface. Whatever, he was interviewing Werner Herzog when he was shot. Bad ass.
However it wasn't until recently that I've started to seek Kermode's film chatter out. A director friend put me on to his BBC film blog, saying it was the only one worth looking at. He may have gone gray but there is still something spirited about his film stance, without being a hater. Plus he knows a thing or two about horror writings...
Although he's not a Star Wars fan, which he regards as 'a gross infantalisation of the dark hearted 'serious' sci-fi.' But no one is perfect. And to be fair, as ingrained as Star Wars is in my childhood, looking at the three prequels as stand alone sci-fi films, there's not much under the surface. Whatever, he was interviewing Werner Herzog when he was shot. Bad ass.
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