Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
After the amazing Kung Fu Panda I had high hopes when seeing the more highly rated Wall-E, Pixar's latest animated feature film. The opening scenes don't disappoint, as we are shown visually amazing photo-realistic depictions of a bleak city-scape to introduce us to the main character and his world. ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I previously mentioned in passing seeing a trailer for Kung Fu Panda, and in finding out the anthropomorphic tiger in the film is in fact a tigress that I had to see the film. The trailer looked jolly enough, although the film didn't look to be much more than ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I had friends over for a Friday Film Night, which generally involves getting a take-away meal. This occasion was no exception, with a plan in place to order a curry between films. One of the early times that I hosted a film night I was a little embarrassed ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
I had quite a full weekend, with surprisingly little gaming. I socialised with family, as it was my niece's birthday, watched some MST3K, made Jambalaya, got some Sun on the appropriately rather hot Sunday, finished reading Feersum Endjinn, and poked my head in to a couple of games.
It turns ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last night and I wasn't impressed. The opening action sequence made me realise how long it has been in watching a film in the cinema since I was last so aware that a stunt double was trying to ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
My DVD player was getting lazy. Whenever I asked it to wake up and play a disc it would often hit the snooze alarm and sleep a bit longer. Sometimes it would hit the snooze alarm many times, not waking up for ages. It was quite frustrating. ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
There was a positive review a month or two back in the NME for an album by White Hinterland. As I try to find some good new music regularly and the review sounded like I would like the album, not just basing it on the score out of ten, ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I forgot to mention in my review of last week's Sci-fi Film Festival that I managed to get a handful of DVDs thrown or handed to me during the screenings. As I mentioned, the festival director, Louis Savy, introduced each film personally. During these short introductions a whole ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I saw Iron Man last night, and greatly enjoyed it. The nuts-and-bolts of the plot were pretty formulaic and held no surprises overall, but the story told using the plot was captivating and exciting with some wonderfully drawn characters. Even the robotic arms were given some fun personalities, ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
This weekend saw me spend about half my time inside a cinema watching sci-fi films, at the seventh annual sci-fi film festival in London. This year's schedule of films was far superior to the previous year, where a misguided collaboration with a horror genre magazine led to half the ...
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