Kester Brewin

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So, I have just ducked out of the fine weather – lovely Ventura sunshine and cool ocean breeze – to see The Bourne Ultimatum with Dr’s Huggins and Rolly-mo. The Great Huggster describes himself as a film buff. Which, I think, means he watches films in the buff. As if this information isn’t violence enough [...]

Mika Brzezinski recently refused to lead with a story about P@&i$ Hi%ton over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a similar vein, Wired reported in ‘A Tale of Two Cities‘ that a trawl of the web revealed more interest in the iPhone than the recent triple-attempted bombing on London and Glasgow. Celebrity::Security::Gossip::War :: These [...]

In the last post, about Herzog’s new(ish) film The Wild Blue Yonder, I mentioned that much of the footage was shot on a Space Shuttle mission. From the haircuts it looks early ’90s. May be even earlier. That or NASA have some serious fashion issues hanging over. Going into space has always been a huge [...]

Last night I went with my good friend and doctor of film Gareth Higgins to see Werner Herzog’s latest film ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’. It’s a deeply comic, deeply environmental parable about space travel, aliens, shopping malls, complex math and hyperspace. And quite wonderful for it. Speaking to Gareth afterwards, I mentioned that the path of the [...]

The other day I was walking along our high street when I saw this ‘mobile CCTV’… tank parked up. They were snapping, so I thought it only polite to reciprocate. It seems we’ve totally resigned ourselves to being discreetly observed at all times. Speed cameras, CCTV, Congestion Charge cameras… I the novel I’ve been working [...]

I’ll add my praise to the fantastic debut feature ‘The Lives of Others‘. It really is a remarkable film. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it follows the story of a Stasi Officer assigned to bug and follow the life of a writer under suspicion in 1980′s East Germany. Through what he overhears [...]

I’ll add my congratulations to Helen Mirren for her Oscar win last night. I thought the film was fantastic, primarily because it exhibited ‘the miracle of restraint’. It would have been too easy to go for money shots of Princes William and Harry grieving their mother’s death. As it was, you never even saw their [...]

I’ve just returned from seeing Into Great Silence – a documentary by Philip Gröning about the Grande Chartreuse monastery, one of the most aescetic in the world. I am a huge documentary fan, and this is a truly wonderful film. The mix of HD digital and Super 8 footage, the all-natural light, with no crew [...]