Tag: war

French exchange

Blast from the past: on the trail of a 1992 school French exchange trip to Arras.

Originally published: 3 May 2009 in Europe

Atonement

This adaptation of the novel is both period piece and manipulative melodrama.

Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film

Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)

When the going gets tough, the tough get forging.

Originally published: 4 Nov 2007 in Film

Casablanca

Director: Michael Curtiz United States, 1942 Casablanca needs no introduction, except maybe the first few bars of As Time Goes By. It’s a masterfully told, elliptical yarn about a difficult period and after so many decades, it’s too easy to overlook the fact that it was contemporary to those times. Bogart’s world weary ex-pat Rick …

Originally published: 22 Feb 2007 in Film

Soldier of Orange

Strong performances and arresting images in this Dutch view of wartime occupation.

Originally published: 4 Sep 2006 in Film

JSA (Joint Security Area)

A buddy film for those who like their nostalgia – and the sunshine policy – spread on thick.

Originally published: 29 Aug 2006 in Film

Brotherhood [Taegukgi]

The Korean War from a Korean (male) perspective and not a yank in sight.

Originally published: 28 Jul 2006 in Film

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Goodbye to RM!

Today is my last day at RM. Next week I’ll be back in Yorkshire after six years away. RM has been a good experience for me, my first in-house job to date, …

  • Originally published: 13 Apr 2006 in Editorial

As Time Pedals By

Meeting up with some old friends from the cycling days. …

The Gospel According To Jesus Christ

José Saramago Harvill (first published 1999) You can imagine the sort of outraged comments this book will have provoked from many zealous Christians. If online bookseller Amazon certainly intended customer reviews to …

  • Originally published: 7 Aug 2008 in Books

Sea of Love

A streetwise city cop thriller that crawls familiar kerbs but more or less delivers the package. …

  • Originally published: 2 Apr 2007 in Film

I am 27 today

Birthdays are a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how much more you have yet to achieve in life. …

  • Originally published: 26 Jun 2006 in Editorial

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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not the Princeton curator, the US senatorial candidate, the Kentuckian pastor or the journalist from Arizona. In fact, I work as a consultant in User Experience and Information Design.

I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.

I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Ellezelloise Hercule.

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