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Looking For Eric (2009 Movie)
4 stars**** Nick Horby’s ‘Fever Pitch’ had set the previous high mark for a serious football film; now Looking For Eric has beaten it hands down and we’re looking at the new number one. Paul Laverty was written an excellent screenplay (I’ve just ordered my copy to study it more closely) that conveys a diverse selection: • The life [...]
Continue reading...Goal 2 Living the Dream (2007 Movie)
Thursday, May 7, 2009
2 stars ** Having included every football cliché in Goal 1, the writing and directing team now needed to move the audience to another unbelievable level. How do we do that, they thought? I know, said one, we’ll have the footballer move to Real Madrid, not considering this has anything to do with (the great) David [...]
Continue reading...Goal (2005 Movie)
Friday, May 1, 2009
2 stars ** So here’s what the directors and writers did; they sat around a large table with lots of movie industry (but not football) people. They spent hours writing down ideas on little pieces of paper. Each idea contained a scene or incident that ‘could’ happen during a movie about a boy that grows up [...]
Continue reading...London Olympics 2012.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Beijing was wonderful. I’ve already talked about how the opening and closing ceremonies were so well planned and produced, with movie scale budgets. I thought I’d write a piece about the closing ceremony, which was excellent. I thought I’d write a post about the wonderful British section, where they accepted the flag and then introduced not [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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