James Martin Charlton
@jmc_fire
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Theatre 🎠Film 🎬@jmcfireplays; Academic and cultural commentary 📚. Author of Fat Souls, Divine Vision. These views and musings I acknowledge mine...
Wing, England
Joined March 2009
My two most recent play publications - Divine Vision: William Blake in Felpham and The Pilgrim's Progress are available from @TSLpub .The Pilgrim's Progress.Step into an unforgettable journey with this epic adaptation of John Bunyan’s timeless allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Let’s hope Morrissey doesn’t play Everyday is Like Sunday next time he’s in Brighton. “Come, come, come, nuclear bomb…”.
Brighton was bombed in Second World War and also in my lifetime in a terrorist attack in 1984. As the Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council I am writing to @sussex_police to ask them to investigate this incitement to terrorism published by Rod Liddle & @michaelgove.
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The Wild Angels (1966) was thought to be such bad publicity for the Hell's Angels biker gang that they sued. It certainly portrays them as nihilistic, misogynist morons. A short film, it has enough plot for less than half its running time: some Angels ride to a small town to
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Where's Poppa? (1970) is one of the darkest Hollywood comedies of its era. A middle-aged bachelor attorney struggles with looking after his dementia-ravaged mother. The film wrings laughs from his fantasies of killing her, but it’s also one of the keenest expressions of the guilt
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RT @TheCriticMag: Morrissey’s politics should not mean we cannot accept that he still has flair, says @jmc_fire
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“… assumptions about the difficulty of language, and of what people from deprived backgrounds are capable of understanding, are, at best, hugely unhelpful. At worst, they commit the sin of the soft bigotry of low expectations.”.As someone from a working class background myself,.
It is wrong to assume that working-class people struggle with traditional language, says Jayne Manfredi
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RT @LeahCar6691: @jmc_fire @TheCriticMag Impressive piece of writing! Not as impressive as Morrissey, but then no-one but him could get me….
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I wrote about The Smiths, Morrissey & Marr and the tendency to elevate the lesser artist for political reasons in @TheCriticMag.
Right-on credentials are no excuse for elevating uninspiring music, writes @jmc_fire
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Il piacere (The Pleasure) (1985) dates from notorious director Joe D’Amato’s brief Tinto Brass period; the film owes a lot to Brass’s La Chiave. An aristocrat’s mistress dies, leaving him to pore over the taped sex diaries from their affair. Having become guardian to the woman’s
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A lovely duet, lush and dreamy. Dylan and Streisand’s voices blend surprisingly well. There’s a palpable frisson between them.
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In Praise of Love is back – but why? A boorish critic, an Estonian resistance fighter turned trad wife with a secret, and a vapid liberal son. One decent speech, acres of clunky exposition. Some thoughts on whether we really need to see these minor Rattigans. link👇
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Handel’s Semele at the Royal Opera: a lavishly unsettling vision of worldly power, pride, and divine delusion. Mears’ production doesn’t flinch – but neither did Handel. Full thoughts below 👇
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RT @TheCriticMag: Framing Titus Andronicus in anti-imperialist terms misses the point, argues @jmc_fire
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RT @TheCriticMag: Shakespeare defies moral binaries, writes @jmc_fire, and resists attempts to be co-opted by political trends. https://t.co….
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Cripes, what do these people do in their minds all day?.
Most People Don’t Have an Inner Voice. And it kind of terrifies me. I just assumed everyone had it, you know that little narrator in your head who talks you through your decisions, who questions your actions, who reflects on your failures and asks, “Why did I do that?” But
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I wrote this a little while ago about Kneecap but it might just as well apply to Bob Vylan.
🗣 New Substack: The Stage Is Not the Street.I’m no fan of Kneecap. But the investigation into their live performances raises a serious question: should we prosecute what’s said in character, on stage? In weighing taste against principle, I’ve come down firmly on the side of
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RT @The_Bardolater: To frame Titus Andronicus as simply anti-imperialist overlooks Shakespeare's truth: violence only breeds ruin. A timele….
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