Dr Michèle Asprey is the critically acclaimed author of Plain Language for Lawyers (5th edition, Annandale: The Federation Press, 2024).

She is a lawyer, film historian and film critic from Sydney, Australia.

Professor Kimble names Michèle Asprey’s book Plain Language for Lawyers as one of the top publications in the history of plain language.

In Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please – The Case for Plain Language in Business, Government, and Law (2nd edition, Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2023), Professor Kimble lists Michèle Asprey’s book as number 9 on his list of the top publications – quite an accolade. It appears alongside David Mellinkoff’s book The Language of the Law (from 1963), Richard Wydick’s book Plain English for Lawyers (from 1979), Rudolph Flesch’s work, and Ernest Gowers’s The Complete Plain Words, among others.

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Eyes Wide Shut

It is really very difficult to review Eyes Wide Shut, as a film in isolation, in the light of Stanley Kubrick's death. Because of Kubrick's death, Eyes Wide Shut, is not just his latest film, or his first film for 12 years, but it's his Last Film. It seems likely Kubrick knew that it would be his last film, and made the film as a Last Film. So I think it is appropriate to take that into account in a review.

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Hamlet

Make the effort! This is a wonderful film, and worth making a day of it. There's an intermission after the first two hours or so, and you get the chance to stretch your legs, and return refreshed for the second half. It does not feel like 4 hours at all.

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127 hours

Every year at Oscar time there are two Academy Awards for sound in film: sound editing and sound mixing. And there are two awards for music: original score and original song. Yet quite often people say that they do not notice music in film, and, apart from the dialogue, they don’t really notice the sound design either.

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