Rachel Robbins
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Writer-Performer based in the North of England. A joyous, flawed mess.
Please read my stories and enjoy. And if you can, please leave a tip. Money raised will be used towards funding a one-woman story-telling, comedy show.
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It’s Raining Men (Iris et les Hommes 2024)
⭐⭐ For those who don’t know, Reviewer 2 is an academic term used to describe that person who during Peer Review of your journal article is unhappy that you haven’t written the article that they would have done. (I mention it in my review of Nightbitch).
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Conclave (2024)
I wasn’t going to watch this film. The trailer hadn’t grabbed me. But then I had a free Monday afternoon and I fancied the cinema. There wasn’t much on that I hadn’t already seen and besides, I had read a few good reviews. The reviews were intriguing because alongside the praise of performances and direction, there was discussion of a plot twist.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Bah Humbug! Thinks my 1940s imaginary screenwriter persona. She is not a lover of Christmas. Christmas filmic tropes are all about the feel-good warmth, twinkling lights, family, the magic of generosity and, even worse, cute children awaiting gifts. Yuk!
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Learning to write a Bad Review. Top Story - November 2024.
I love reading bad reviews. It is where critics are at their funniest. If there are ten films worse than Bride Wars this year, I quit ... Everyone will tell you it’s a chick flick. Only in the sense that if you ground it up and fed it to battery hens it might be better served than running it through a projector.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Small Things Like These. Top Story - November 2024.
I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These a couple of years ago. I watched the film produced and starring Cillian Murphy yesterday. “They” say films never live up to the book. I’m not sure I agree with whoever “they” are.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
No, Not Everything Will Be Alright
I know you want to comfort and reassure me. I know that you want me to cling to hope and tell me that everything is going to be alright. I know you are a good person. I know most people are good. But I also know hate has been emboldened and become entitled.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Viva
The Curious Career of Mercedes McCambridge. Top Story - October 2024. Content Warning.
The story goes that attending an open audition for the part of Sadie in All the King's Men (1949), Mercedes McCambridge got angry. Whilst waiting for her chance, she grew appalled with the treatment of the candidates being herded in and out of the office. She went in to meet the director furious and gave Robert Rossen a piece of her mind. She got the part, there and then, by unintentionally giving Rossen the rough edges and passion of the Sadie he wanted. For that role, her first feature film role, she went on to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Writing Trauma and Grief. Top Story - October 2024.
I have just read a beautiful flash fiction – prize winning – Fearful Symmetry by Holly Barrett. (Here) It is about a complicated grief. Grief for a sibling never known, a family living with trauma. I have a lump in my throat that refuses to be swallowed.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Writers
