Ben Oliver

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I don’t do many blogs-about-blogging here but this is something I’ve been hoping to do for a while, and man I have to say that Pagefind made setting up search a breeze on this site. There’s no database, no third party - just static files!

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08 March 2025

The Last Showgirl

Pamela Anderson stars as a middle-aged dancer, and member of a Moulin Rouge-style show in Las Vegas. It’s been around for years and is a little long in the tooth so the owners axe the show, leaving the dancers looking for new work.

We were having a sunny stroll around Sheffield when we came across this new-ish cafe at Whirlow Brook Park. Guess what they had on the menu?

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04 March 2025

A Real Pain

Two cousins, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, go to Poland on a tour aimed at Jewish people trying to reconnect with their past. They set out to visit the house their grandmother lived in, and old tensions between the two of them rise up.

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04 March 2025

A Complete Unknown

I don’t know why I bother with these biopics sometimes, they are so well done but also all the same. This one in case you missed it is about Bob Dylan and it’s Timothée so-hot-right-now Chalamet in the lead role. It’s made by James Mangold who also did Walk the Line about Johnny Cash 20 years ago.

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