Archive for October, 2008
Pedro Almodóvar’s films have strong women, transvestites and a lot of feeling.
I believe that some people are just born to do a certain job – or does it just look like that from their Biographies because of their single-minded pursuit of that job? And is it actually the single-mindedness that is necessary for such success?
Fringe - Is the series any good?
Watching the first episode I first felt very bemused by all the paranormal silliness, but I soon got drawn in which I at least partly blame on Joshua Jackson.
Burn After Reading
The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men) move back to comedy with this funny and rather intelligent piece of ‘espionage’ action. Put very simply, it’s a study of what happens when a lot of really quite stupid people are allowed to run riot with “classified” data and it plays out as a comedy of [...]
Star Trek goes shiny, James Bond goes nuts, Watchmen goes public
Ok, so I’ve been a little quiet over the past couple of weeks, for this we can blame the Credit Crunch. Though that’s more because everyone else appears to be blaming the credit-cunch for things unrelated in any way to global markets to I figure why not jump on the band-wagon. However, in the past [...]
Let your dvd player taste some old school magic
Just yesterday I was reminded how much I love 80’s comedies, when a friend of mine but “Office Space” on. A film I had incredibly never seen before – and I love 80’s films – I do not have a dvd & vcr combo player for no reason!
Waiting for… Shantaram!
You probably have not read the autobiographical book “Shantaram” by Gregory David Roberts. I guess most people haven’t – but Johnny Depp has - and he agrees with me.
Guy Ritchie casts Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Sherlock Holmes and Watson
So, this is an interesting piece of casting. In a press conference, Guy Ritchie has announced that Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man) and Jude Law (Alfie) have signed on to his latest production, tentatively titled “Sherlock Holmes”, set for 2009. Now that is an inventive title.
The various rumours I’ve heard are that it’s to be [...]
West Wing Season 2 DVD Review
Following the heart-shredding climax to Season 1; The West Wing returns for a second season and we pick up seconds after we left off… Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden could learn a lot from Josiah “Jeb” Bartlett
I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone. So I’ll try and avoid telling you who (if anyone) dies [...]
Lost Season 4
Finally over this weekend just gone I got to finish watching Lost season 4, and… WOW! What a mix up. It’s such a well produced series and laced with twists and turns, I feel that season 4 is better than the 3rd, although you really have got to go through the whole set of each [...]
(4 out of 5)
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