Film Reviews with Filmmaker on Wheels

Today I watched the BBC version of Midsummer Nights Dream adapted by Russel T. Davies. I knew of Davies' work but instead of letting that sway me I thought about what past me thought about Shakspeare - I knew of Shakespeare because I studied Romeo and Juliet at GCSE but, I had thought of him in a love and yet hating way because my grandfather had worked in amateur theatre and would talk about nothing but Theatre, Acting, Shakespeare and the like.  In short it bored me and I thought I wanted nothing to do with Shakepeare or anything related... Since then I have understood some things which perplexed me in his work especially since Shakespeare's 400th Birthday celebration. According to the original Comedy Play of the same name, Midsummer Nights Dream is about the Marriage if Theseus, The Duke of Athens and a warrior, Hypolita who is captured and is to be forced in the marriage.  The adaptation starts has the same plot line beginning with Theseus telling his servants to have a pa...

Docudrama "Codebreaker" on Yesterday Channel based Alan Turing's Writings, Historical Records and  accounts of those who knew him. October 1952  Franz Greenbaum was Turing's Physchiatrist who fled just before WW2  because he was a German born Jew.  His Daughters, Maria Summerscale and Barbara Maher recollect that "He turned up in the most extraordinary clothes when he came, it was as though he'd been out of a rag-bag".  They mention in the interview that their father accepting Homosexualality far out during that time.  Turing's Older brother (John) had Dermot and he says that both brothers "Were sons of the empire, their father was in the Indian civil service, and with his wife being pregnant with Alan, they're sent back to England with a foster family and they don't see their parents again until his Father serves again in a years' time"  He suspects this is why Alan found it easy to disappear into his own world because of this....