NOTHING CAN GO WRONG
WRITING A BOOK Writing a book is easy. Finishing a book is harder. Selling a book is EVEN harder in 2020 than selling a Compact Disc IN 2020 I STARTED WRITING NOTHING CAN GO WRONG…
Shorts
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA
1970 Australia left India for South Africa in late December 1969 with the belief they could conquer other continents. It was a bridge too far. They arrived cocksure and couldn’t muster a reasonable batting line-up.…
SIMON WALKER – A RECOLLECTION
20 August 2017 This day, 37 years ago, 20 August 1980, was the day I met Simon Walker. It was an extraordinary day that changed my life, forever. Probably not his so much, but mine,…
IMPORTANT DIRECTORS
A Few Observations by Philip Powers Background – Misguided Youthful Prejudices It’s to my shame that when I thought of important directors up until 1 July 2017, the names that came to mind were mainly…
A CRITIC – JUST ANOTHER PERSON WITH AN OPINION
Another few observations by Philip Powers I’m not trying to come up with a comprehensive list of the top hundred films – which will represent my opinion – ever made, by the time I reach…
FILM CRAZY
Another few observations by Philip Powers Only three of my favourite hundred films appear in this list and despite the fact that in the first thirty years of my life I’d already seen about 80%…
OBSERVATIONS BY PHILIP POWERS
THINGS I THINK When I have a particular observation, phrase, poem, statement – “OR JUST QUOTES” – which I want to say, write or express, I’ll put it here. It’s an observation. It’s a new…