Intervention
I’m at the mind-bendingly lush Harris & Hoole coffee shop at Tesco Extra just before Christmas, quietly considering whether I’d like to select drowning in their cappuccinos as my chosen method of death, when one of the two guys sitting at the table next to me leans across to his mate and says something that actually makes me spill some of my coffee into the saucer.
Waterworks
I’m standing beside the lift entrance at the back of the oddly depressing WHSmith store at Westwood Cross when I realise that my friend, the guy I’m here to meet up with, is taking a really long time to buy a magazine.
Storyteller
When you think of films that managed to conjure up a genuine fantasy universe that made you feel like you were right there in the world you were watching, very few examples actually stand out.
Fatherland
‘Dave, don’t look around now….but I think the man by the stairs might be my father.’
Circus
There's a scene in the pilot episode of The Amazing Digital Circus where Pomni (a character that I identify with more than I'd like to admit) is running through a series of endlessly identical exit doors only to arrive in the same room Ad nauseam: it's a darkly accurate visual metaphor for anyone who currently feels stuck in their life, but it also sets the deliciously grim tone for one of the deepest, most profoundly disturbing TV series of the last decade.
