Ben Oliver

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film
07 July 2025

Carry On Camping

“She was showing me how to stick the pole up.”
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What better time to watch this than while camping in Devon myself? No it’s not a sequel to the recent airport based thriller.

film
05 July 2025

Dirty Harry

The composer Lalo Schifin just passed away and while his best known piece is probably the Mission: Impossible theme tune, some of his greatest work is on the Dirty Harry soundtrack.

book
25 June 2025

Rum Punch

And so to the book part of the book-film club.

film
24 June 2025

Jackie Brown

We’re back with the Something Strange book club here in Sheffield and it’s a film I didn’t even know was based on a book.

film
22 June 2025

28 Years Later

A sequel to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, the UK zombie outbreak movies from a couple of decades ago. Danny Boyle is back behind the camera, and in this one we follow a community of people living in isolation from the UK mainland on Lindisfarne, a tidal island off the North-East coast. 12 year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) takes to the mainland to hunt zombies with his dad (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), as a rite-of-passage ritual.

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