Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that, thus far, Ruthless Culture has been free of the blogosphere’s traditional end of year introspection. There have been no ‘best of the year’ posts, no plans for 2010, no resolutions, no learning from past mistakes… until now.
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December 7, 2009
The Cineworld Unlimited Card
As Mel Gibson once put it…
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Tags: BFI, Cineworld, Cineworld Unlimited, Odeon, Prince Charles Cinema, Vue
November 5, 2009
Happy Birthday To Us
Yesterday, Ruthless Culture was officially one year old as it was on the fourth of November 2008 that I put up my first post – a review of Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra.
I have enjoyed this year’s blogging far more than I enjoyed the previous two with SF Diplomat and I think that Ruthless Culture hosts some [...]
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June 13, 2009
Empty Criticism
This week has seen some quite bitter disagreement over the role of the critic in writing about genre. As pieced together by Abigail Nussbaum and Niall Harrison, the debate started when a new group blog launched claiming not only the name ‘ethics’ but also the primacy of enthusiastically positive genre writing. Before long, a test [...]
June 11, 2009
Junior Bergman
So, I’ve done a bit of Roman Polanski… I’ve done the Red Riding trilogy. I think it’s time for another spell of focussed blogging.
I toyed with the idea of doing a Heart of Darkness series (as I do have two more pieces I’ve been toying with about that particular work) but then I noticed a [...]
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May 10, 2009
Blogging the Personal
Larry at OF Blog of the Fallen raises an interesting point about the “lack of liveliness” in some blogs :
While no one has to do any of the above or more, sometimes I’m reading through a blog and it’s as though the person operating it has largely chosen to remove him/herself from the material being [...]
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