Chris Rogers
‘Dune: Part Two’ (2024)
Cinema can provide an escape from reality and science fiction is supposed to foretell the future. You have to choose your film wisely,...
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Chris Rogers
Feb 212 min read
BT phone home
Hotels provide a home away from home regardless of price, location or style and whether they were purpose-built or converted. Indeed some...
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Chris Rogers
Feb 175 min read
Devices and desires
Microsoft is to allow games developed for its Xbox to be made available on other companies’ consoles; arch rival Sony may be having...
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Chris Rogers
Jan 205 min read
The Substitutions of Sir Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott had to recast Napoleon after the pandemic affected industry schedules worldwide; the same problem affected House of Gucci,...
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Chris Rogers
Dec 31, 20232 min read
The old and the new
This is the Lego 315-3 European Taxi, released in 1963 well before I was born and so with some claim to be my oldest set. Mum can’t...
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Chris Rogers
Dec 24, 20234 min read
A different kettle of fish
For years I’ve believed that St Magnus House, a riverside office building in the City of London from the prolific practice of Richard...
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