Paul Stewart
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Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!
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Primer (2004)
If you want a hard-science, very grounded and jargon-heavy take on time travel, watch Primer. It avoids many of the fantastical tropes associated with the genre, instead focusing on the moral questions and implications time travel raises and creates. Definitely a film that requires a number of rewatches to understand.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Critique
Apollo 13 (1995)
Three friends take a road trip to the moon. Disaster strikes. Plans are changed and they have to fight the vast and unforgiving vaccuum of space itself and fix some complicated mechanical errors on their ride. They call for back-up from Houston, get home safely, but never saw the flag.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Critique
Star Wars (1977)
Whiny boy who dreams of leaving his overbearing uncle and aunt's moisture farm to become a rebellion pilot, gets his wishes and much more. Also, he discovers he's the chosen one for a weird cult of space wizards and then with his new pals destroys a planet killing space station.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Critique
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1997)
Forget the forever overhyped Office Space. This is the one Mike Judge movie you need to see. Beavis and Butt-Head literally do America in this farce that sees Demi Moore and Bruce Willis deliver some of the strongest work of their acting careers. This was definitely overlooked by the Academy.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Critique
OK Computer By Radiohead (1997)
OK Computer saw a reasonably good, if pedestrian, jangly guitar-based band from Oxford turn into one of the most continuously inventive bands of our modern times. That they don't sound the same as that album nowadays is testimony to their boundary and envelope-pushing intentions. It's still flawless, 25 years later.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Critique
Different Class by Pulp (1995)
Pulp showed they were in a Different Class from the rest of the so-called Britpop scene with this career-defining album. Jarvis Cocker's biting lyrics and heartfelt vocals about the social classes and life in general, backed by sweeping soundscapes with catchy choruses. Oasis Vs Blur was already lost to Pulp.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Critique
Pulp Fiction
Shocking but fun with a sublime soundtrack. Overhyped, but stylish and quotable. Pulp Fiction, in hindsight, is not the masterpiece many thought it was. The inspiration for a million and one knockoffs. A career best for John Travolta, though not even close to being Tarantino's finest film. Watch Inglorious instead.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Scream
Refreshing the book of horror filmmaking and storytelling, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson put the frights and fun back into the dead donkey of a genre that needed a good kick up the ass. Satirical meta fiction at its finest that works as both a homage and parody of horror.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
