Paul Stewart
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Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!
Streams and Scratches in My Mind coming soon!
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Prey (2022)
Amber Midthunder steals the show as the fierce young Comanche warrior, Naru, who defends her tribe from the ferocious Predator. Has beautiful cinematography, tense, edge-of-seat action, unexpected jump scares and actual character development. Naru does not get an easy time, but never gives up. Relentlessly boundary-pushing in the best ways.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Crime and Punishment
A challenging book, but one that rewards those that give it a chance. Dostoevsky's masterpiece about a Russian student who plans and executes a murder, seemingly without any remorse. He is an intellectual afterall. Then spends most of the book descending into painful depression, guilt and anxiety over the crime.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
The Boy, The Mole, The Horse and The Fox
In a world where we are bombarded with so much hatred, violence, disaster after disaster, it can be difficult to find our way back to hope. With his simple story, inspirational and powerful dialogue and exquisite images, Charlie Mackesy will warm your heart and soul. Sincere, important and a masterpiece.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Lord of The Rings Trilogy (2001 - 2003)
Jackson did awesome to bring Tolkein's incredible world, story and characters to life. Viggo WAS Aragorn, Hugo WAS Elrond, Christopher WAS Saruman. Elijah WAS Frodo. I have one question, thought, Mr Jackson. Well three. Where was Sharkey?, Where was the Scouring and where on all of Middle-Earth was Tom Bombadil?
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Primer (2004)
If you want a hard-science, very grounded and jargon-heavy take on time travel, watch Primer. It avoids many of the fantastical tropes associated with the genre, instead focusing on the moral questions and implications time travel raises and creates. Definitely a film that requires a number of rewatches to understand.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Apollo 13 (1995)
Three friends take a road trip to the moon. Disaster strikes. Plans are changed and they have to fight the vast and unforgiving vaccuum of space itself and fix some complicated mechanical errors on their ride. They call for back-up from Houston, get home safely, but never saw the flag.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Star Wars (1977)
Whiny boy who dreams of leaving his overbearing uncle and aunt's moisture farm to become a rebellion pilot, gets his wishes and much more. Also, he discovers he's the chosen one for a weird cult of space wizards and then with his new pals destroys a planet killing space station.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1997)
Forget the forever overhyped Office Space. This is the one Mike Judge movie you need to see. Beavis and Butt-Head literally do America in this farce that sees Demi Moore and Bruce Willis deliver some of the strongest work of their acting careers. This was definitely overlooked by the Academy.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
OK Computer By Radiohead (1997)
OK Computer saw a reasonably good, if pedestrian, jangly guitar-based band from Oxford turn into one of the most continuously inventive bands of our modern times. That they don't sound the same as that album nowadays is testimony to their boundary and envelope-pushing intentions. It's still flawless, 25 years later.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
Different Class by Pulp (1995)
Pulp showed they were in a Different Class from the rest of the so-called Britpop scene with this career-defining album. Jarvis Cocker's biting lyrics and heartfelt vocals about the social classes and life in general, backed by sweeping soundscapes with catchy choruses. Oasis Vs Blur was already lost to Pulp.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Critique
