: About Me

I'm a student and film addict. I run a film review website as a hobby - www.thefilmblogger.com - and am the editor of the Film section of my University (Essex) newspaper, The Rabbit.

Films are my life essentially! I watch a lot every year and love discussing and writing about them. It's my ambition one day to be a film critic for a living. My degree is in Film and Literature, with the hope that failing that, I will get a pHD in Film, and be able to teach it for a living!

I hope that I can both write some compelling articles, and also make a little money from my work. Thanks!

My passion is ...

films

I know too much about ...

films

My parents always told me ...

be polite!

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a film director

My favorite memory ...

is meeting my girlfriend

Why I write ...

because I enjoy it as a means of expression

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Bonnie and Clyde, and Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses

My first job ...

working at the Royal Mail. Rubbish.

My best moment ...

meeting my girlfriend

My inspiration ...

watching a great film

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Love Happens

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It's no secret that trailers lie; they piece together the best parts of a film to make it seem so much better than it actually is, but sadly, the trailer for Love Happens, which roused more laughter than sympathy in this critic, did not lie. The film is every bit as cornball and schmaltzy as its promotional material implied if, of course, you distended it out to 109 minutes of intermittent torture. Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) is a self-help author and therapist who has become a poster-boy for helping others cope with their loss. However, he has yet to fully confront his own loss; the death ...

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