Rachel Robbins
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Writer-Performer based in the North of England. A joyous, flawed mess.
Please read my stories and enjoy. And if you can, please leave a tip. Money raised will be used towards funding a one-woman story-telling, comedy show.
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Apologies for the last minute entry to this challenge. I didn’t think it was for me. I am not great at making New Years Resolutions and I blame the foggy mist of a Greater Manchester January. It is probably the wrong setting to attempt fresh thinking. I am back from a drizzle-laden walk and my hair has frizzed and I feel bedraggled. The snow has disappeared and there is black ice in the parks, so I had to stick to main roads that were slightly too noisy to catch everything my air pods were trying to tell me. The pavements were wet and uneven. I was walking against a small tide of commuters, all with their heads down. Nobody used an umbrella against the dampness in the air that couldn’t quite be called rain.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Motivation
A Real Pain (2024)
The critics agree that A Real Pain is a great film, with a high-energy, tortured central performance which led to Mick LaSalle of the San Franciso Chronicle declaring that a new genre had been invented – “the Kieran Culkin movie”. Honestly, it is a brilliant performance. The high-energy twitching of neurosis captured in every move.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Tiffany's Epiphany. Top Story - January 2025.
Tiffany Higgins had been sitting on the hard plastic chairs, feeling her behind get numb and her courage failing. She was still in her office clothes and the sweat was gathering in her polyester armpits. The sudden silence and the anxious stares became the prompt for her rehearsed lines. Her voice was hesitant.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Fiction
It’s Raining Men (Iris et les Hommes 2024)
⭐⭐ For those who don’t know, Reviewer 2 is an academic term used to describe that person who during Peer Review of your journal article is unhappy that you haven’t written the article that they would have done. (I mention it in my review of Nightbitch).
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Conclave (2024)
I wasn’t going to watch this film. The trailer hadn’t grabbed me. But then I had a free Monday afternoon and I fancied the cinema. There wasn’t much on that I hadn’t already seen and besides, I had read a few good reviews. The reviews were intriguing because alongside the praise of performances and direction, there was discussion of a plot twist.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Bah Humbug! Thinks my 1940s imaginary screenwriter persona. She is not a lover of Christmas. Christmas filmic tropes are all about the feel-good warmth, twinkling lights, family, the magic of generosity and, even worse, cute children awaiting gifts. Yuk!
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Learning to write a Bad Review. Top Story - November 2024.
I love reading bad reviews. It is where critics are at their funniest. If there are ten films worse than Bride Wars this year, I quit ... Everyone will tell you it’s a chick flick. Only in the sense that if you ground it up and fed it to battery hens it might be better served than running it through a projector.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Small Things Like These. Top Story - November 2024.
I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These a couple of years ago. I watched the film produced and starring Cillian Murphy yesterday. “They” say films never live up to the book. I’m not sure I agree with whoever “they” are.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
No, Not Everything Will Be Alright
I know you want to comfort and reassure me. I know that you want me to cling to hope and tell me that everything is going to be alright. I know you are a good person. I know most people are good. But I also know hate has been emboldened and become entitled.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Viva
