Three reasons to watch 8 Mile
There are plenty of reasons to watch 8 Mile. Here are three that hold up — and one warning about the English, which is some of the fastest in mainstream cinema. 1. It is a well-made biopic The film knows exactly what it is doing with colour. The grey of Detroit carries the weight of […]
Teamwork, for better and for worse: 1917
Teamwork is the most discussed and least examined subject in corporate life. 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, offers an unusually clear view of it, because in a war film the consequences of getting it wrong arrive immediately and cannot be argued with. The film’s famous continuous-take construction matters here beyond the technical achievement. Because there […]
Three Films to Watch If You Want to Start a Business
Nobody decides to start a business on a whim, or at least nobody who succeeds does. While the idea matures, here are three films that say something genuinely useful about the job — and one of them is not the one you would expect. First, what an entrepreneur actually does An entrepreneur is not simply […]
13 Good Reasons to Learn to Speak English
Everyone agrees English is useful. Fewer people can say precisely why, which is a problem, because a vague reason does not survive week three of a course. Here are thirteen specific ones. Not one of them is “it looks good on a CV”. 1. You can travel almost anywhere English is the second most spoken […]