Q-ell Betton

Joined June 2017

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I write stuff. A lot.

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Close Your Eyes on the Joneses
Listening to the latest ads from Apple is very different from watching them. The eyes lie. In this day and age, and over the last 30 years, as media has grown and become omnipresent, we have become consumers fooled by our eyes.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Journal
'The Spy Who Dumped Me'— A Review
Oh my fucking god. Apparently, The Spy Who Dumped Me is a comedy. A vehicle written to make one laugh. Someone—Susanna Fogel and David Iserson—deliberately wrote this film. Fogel also directs, more on that later.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
The Darkness Came Later
The final X-Men film under 20th Century Fox films will be released early in June before the rights to the characters are absorbed into the MCU juggernaut. Simon Kinsberg gets a final chance to erase the debacle that was The Last Stand. Kinsberg wrote The Last Stand, with directing duties going to Brett Ratner.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
Easy Living
The question to ask is, are you failing? Or just gliding through life, easily sailing Avoiding challenges, don’t push too hard
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Poets
Wherefore Art Thou Whedon?
There are a few writers—both in film and television—that can get me to watch a film or a show. Such is my faith in Christopher Nolan’s ability to create a compelling story, I fought my dislike of war films to see the quite brilliant Dunkirk.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
What I Meant to Say Was
It can be difficult to see something from another person's point of view. No matter what the scenario, your brain will always try to give it a frame of reference that is personal to yourself. That is just how the brain works.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
Name That Theme Tune
With the explosion of streaming services, media, and bingeable or downloadable content shows that are watched by the masses are rare. The like of Games of Thrones or Walking Dead—both which I do not watch—are not as common as they were in the seventies, eighties and into the nineties.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
'Bringing Up Baby' Review
With modern society's perennial rush to embrace the new and most update of everything in life, the golden age of Hollywood, the classic films of yesteryear, anything pre-digital, is almost being regarded as too old to appreciate or give any attention.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
The Sky Is Jade, the Sea Is Pink
There is a well-known film from 1959 called Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner as Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress with a young daughter, Susie, played as a teenager by Sandra Dee, who takes in a black housekeeper, Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) and her mixed-race daughter, Sarah-Jane, portrayed as a teenager by Susan Kohner.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Humans
Fitness in a YouTube World. Top Story - March 2019.
If you type the word "fitness" into the Google search engine, you get—in less than a second—over three and a half billion search results. Fitness, on the internet, is big, big business.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Longevity
'La Doña' - A Review
A lot of people think of telenovelas as Latin American soap operas. Where soap operas and telenovelas have a commonality is they are both long-form storytelling. They both tend to have exaggerated and extraordinary storylines and both tend to have an ensemble cast. The biggest difference between a soap opera and a telenovela is that telenovelas have an ending. Which is why I like them.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks
'Jefe'—Review
César (Luis Callejo) is the hedonistic, egocentric, bullish boss of a failing company. Unwilling to let staff go during an industry downturn, his life goes to crap when, after a particularly raucous weekend, he goes to the company board meeting and is told that the company is in serious trouble and they have only a week to prevent the company from going under.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Geeks