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Alec Guinness and The Long Glass Corridor

April 3, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

I stood there, shaking, as Sir Alec Guinness moved down the long glass corridor fronting the house he built, slowly moving his bulk across two old legs and equally old […]

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Editorial, Film

I’m Sorry, Morena Baccarin

April 3, 2014by Simon 2 Comments

It can’t be easy being famous as an actor. It’s such a sought after dream by so many – a fact that will keep TV executives well in pocket for […]

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Editorial, Television

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Feeding The Addiction

February 7, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

This article isn’t about me, but there needs to be some context; in 1994, in front of a packed college audience, I had to deliver a monologue. The play, I […]

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Editorial, Film

Review: Nidhogg (PC)

January 28, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

If games are dancing, then Nidhogg is the Argentinian Tango. Grace and blood, attacks and parries, personal space being fiercely invaded time and time again. Swift moves sometimes sliding into long-held pauses […]

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Games, Review

Drip – Chapter 4

January 28, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

Flash. Flash. Flash. Alice balanced, mid splits, one foot on the boiler casing and the other on a wooden box filled with skiwear. Her right arm was reaching up, stretching […]

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Drip – Chapter 3

December 12, 2013by Simon Leave a comment

The tears that streamed from her eyes mixed with the blood seeping from her forehead until it dripped muddy flowers into the river by her feet. Alice sat sobbing in […]

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Review: The Day Of The Doctor – The 50th Anniversary Special

November 26, 2013by Simon Leave a comment

Originally published on AwesomeFriday.ca The *Third Conditional* in English is the impossible *”what if?”*. All the other conditional forms deal either with present truths or future ideas, plans and dreams of […]

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Review, Television

Review: Europa Report

November 26, 2013by Simon Leave a comment

Originally published on AwesomeFriday.ca It’s hard to know where to begin with *Europa Report*. Not because it’s bad; it’s really not. More that the measure of what it *might* have been […]

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Film, Review

Call Of Duty: The Ghost Of Infinity Ward

November 26, 2013by Simon Leave a comment

Originally published on AwesomeFriday.ca I distinctly remember the first time I played *Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare*. The ghillie suits; the desperate post-snipe escape; the tower ambush; the helicopter crash. It […]

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Editorial, Games

Drip – Chapter 2

October 30, 2013by Simon Leave a comment

Alice slammed her clenched fists against the glass in sweeping overhead arcs, curves of water forming over her head as her hands scooped up the now waist-high water. She screamed, […]

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