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Sleepless, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Scoot McNairy, Dermot Mulroney, T.I., David Harbour, Gabrielle Union, Octavious J. Johnson, Tim Connolly, Drew Sheer, Sala Baker, Tim Rigby.

The story of the corrupt cop is always one that can enthral an audience, to see someone who is supposed to uphold the law cross the thin blue line to the other side, normally for money, is one that is as old as Hollywood and as poignant as modern day society. It is also a tale which has been assuredly been done every way possible, that in many respects it is no longer shocking because we live in a world where moral boundaries have become blurred and downright insensible; we have become immune to it because we understand it goes on all the time, the chronic Sleepless feeling we have is the only defence to the constant news about it.

Sleepless, Film Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Sleep(less)

We don’t get along, we never really have.

I hate the thought of giving into Morpheus’ seduction

and the sound of a thousand yawns and inevitable,

“It’s Bed Time”, joyfully shouted as the radio

was switched off with glee, just as I was listening

to some news from a far off place, or the glimmer

of a new song that had caught my ear, all cut off in their prime

and with accompanying whine “Why aren’t you tired?”

 

Of course I am tired, for over forty years I have been shattered,

Sleep(less) full post

(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)