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Jan
01

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dear Readers and Subscribers, Happy New Year! Wishing you all the very best for the year ahead in 2026, and
Dec
30

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS COMPILATIONS PAST

Like insects preserved in amber from the Jurassic age, frozen emotions of yesteryear are embalmed on the playlists of Christmases
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Dec
29

BETWEEN TIME

There's a beautiful clip doing the rounds amongst the internet's film community lately of director David
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Dec
26

THE 'KING'S' SPEECH

It’s unnerving to have a reigning monarch whose fingers look like pigs in blankets on steroids. Everything about Charles
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Dec
25

THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING

Originally written during the first COVID Christmas (2020) and first posted on Digital Renegade on 24 November 2021, I decided
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Dec
24

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

“Thank God! Cecil Court remains Cecil Court…” – Graham Greene Dear Readers/Subscribers, Well, 2025 has certainly been a tumultuous year
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Dec
23

HEAVEN AND EARTH

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Hamlet Perhaps because
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Dec
21

THE SPIRIT OF WINTER

As it’s the shortest day, I return to the elusive search for the tangible feeling of deep winter magic—
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Dec
21

ALL ALONE FOR CHRISTMAS

Alone in God’s Home The unwavering popularity of the Home Alone films (Home Alone and Home Alone 2) is
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Dec
19

ODE TO JOHN

For Better, for Worse I recently wrote a piece about how one subtextual reading of Hitchcock’s Notorious functions as
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