It is a hugely strange scene, and – occasional claustrophiliac with an intermittent taste for decay that I am – I find myself rather gripped by it.
There is only one moment, maybe, when it is plainly visible Zimmern knows that what he's about to eat, while more common than Munchos and just as delicious to his bemused-polite hosts, is hugely strange and a little scary to those not raised on it.
In Katherine Bigelow's hugely underrated movie Strange Days, a virtual realty technology allows users to fully experience the memories and sensations of another.
Of course, within a year of the album's release Morrissey, himself, was backtracking: 'I'm not as madly keen on it as I was.' (PR) Burn it: Hand in Glove; Suffer Little Children 22 Hounds Of Love, Kate Bush EMI, 1985; chart position: 1 When pop music was bonkers The first woman in this list is the hugely talented, wildly strange first lady of romantic experimental pop.
Vick's staging is a triumph of logistics above all, for some had pronounced this profoundly strange yet hugely ambitious work with its sometimes fantastical dramatic conceits, as unstageable.
Within a few pages, she was gripped: "I was sitting bolt upright, realising it was something special … It was a strange combination of feelings – hugely excited and incredibly panicked that someone else might be reading it at the same time.
And that's hugely different from the approach of previous strange-girl films, of which the most celebrated, perhaps, was Mervyn LeRoy's "Bad Seed" (1956): that picture's protagonist is a monster, a kiddie sociopath — Evil in anklets.
It is a long, strange, uneven, and, in the end, hugely moving work.
It is a powerfully strange book, at once very simple yet hugely complicated.
He was talking about his team's first half performance but I still found it an incredibly strange reaction at the end of a hugely disappointing night for Hibs.
But for all the Mass Games are strange (occasionally offensively so), they're also hugely impressive.
